My first paper with Sarah de Lange https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/a/s.l.delange/s.l.delange.html and Wouter van der Brug https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/b/r/w.vanderbrug/w.van-der-brug.html was published online by Party Politics https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1354068820980304 in December. Through their connections to organised civil society parties diffuse their values, exchange ideas, information and resources, and mobilise supporters. In the article we show that these connections matter electorally. Parties with stronger connections to civil society have more electoral stability than those with less connectivity. Understanding how and why parties connections differ is critical to ur understanding of party competition in the 21st century.
The beginning of the end for increasing volatility?
The Beginning of the End of Rising Volatility Alongside reduced class-based voting, partisan de-alignment and the rise of populism, rising electoral volatility has become an axiom of analyses of elections in Western Europe. There is certainly a wealth of evidence that...
