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.
Paying the Price
Why parties that turn their back on civil society face electoral upheaval My blog on the article I wrote with Sarah de Lange and Wouter van der Brug, published in Party Politics last December, has gone live on the LSE European Politics blog site. In it we argue that...
