A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established …

, rejection of migrations and strong preferences for law and order. Our study covers the period 2004 to 2018 and 25 European …

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …

party bloc and policy committee. Our results illuminate how individual legislators shape policymaking in party …

mainstream. This paper asks how public attitudes about such policies respond once an extreme party increases their political … elections where a party either barely wins or loses an additional seat. We estimate that a one seat increase for the far …-right, anti-immigration party decreases negative attitudes towards immigration by 4.1 percentage points, in opposition to the …

voters’ preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates’ policy preferences responsive to party positions … the preferences of specific partisan groups with their preferred party’s position on the policy under consideration …

returns to holding political office in a typical developed democracy where parties are the main political actors. By applying …

This paper studies the effects of endogenous party formation on political platforms. It develops a model in which … party. In two-party equilibria, the distance between both platforms is always positive but limited, in contrast to the … median voter model and the citizen candidate model. In one-party equilibria, the median voter can be worse off than in all …