Tag: challengers

The year of challengers? Issues, public opinion, and elections in Western Europe in 2017 edited by Lorenzo De Sio and Aldo Paparo Within the seven-month period going from mid-March to mid-October of 2017, five Western-European democracies held their general elections: the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria. This provided an exceptional opportunity to study public opinion structures in these countries in the particularly turbulent context that followed disruptive electoral developments such as the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump. To exploit this opportunity, the CISE launched an innovative comparative research project to empirically assess before the elections the preferences of...

Introduction: Mapping public opinion on issues in elections across Europe in 2017  Lorenzo De Sio and Aldo Paparo Part I – Netherlands The Dutch Parliamentary election of 2017: a case study of issue competition Lorenzo De Sio Towards the next Dutch general election: issues at stake, support and priority Vincenzo Emanuele, Lorenzo De Sio and Mathilde van Ditmars  Towards the next Dutch general election: party credibility on different issues Aldo Paparo, Lorenzo De Sio and Mathilde van Ditmars Towards the next Dutch general election: the issue opportunity structure for parties Nicola Maggini, Lorenzo De Sio and Mathilde van Ditmars It's the culture, stupid! Issue competition in the 2017 Dutch election Lorenzo De Sio...