Tag: mainstream

To cite the article: Crulli, M., & Albertazzi, D. (2024). The ‘mainstream’ in contemporary Europe: a bi-dimensional and operationalisable conceptualisation. West European Politics, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2024.2359841 The article is open access and can be accessed here. Abstract The aim of this article is twofold. Firstly, it offers a new definition of ‘mainstream’. Moving beyond understandings of the concept that focus exclusively on parties’ alternation in power, or their ideology/message, the article’s conceptualisation considers both supply and demand sides of politics. Hence, an attitudinal component to functional...

A new article by Davide Angelucci and Lorenzo De Sio, titled Issue characterization of electoral change (and how recent elections in Western Europe were won on economic issues), has been just published by the Italian Journal of Electoral Studies. The article is now officially available here. Leveraging the issue-rich ICCP dataset (data and documentation is openly accessible and available free of charge through the ICCP and GESIS websites), the article investigates the issue determinants of vote change in six important European countries between 2017 and 2018 (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, UK). The...

Alla vigilia del voto del 26 maggio, risulta interessante chiarire quali saranno i dati da osservare con particolare attenzione durante la notte elettorale per comprendere le dinamiche del voto sia in Italia che in Europa. La letteratura sulle elezioni europee ci dice come queste ultime possano essere considerate quali elezioni di “secondo ordine” (Reif e Schmitt 1980). Queste sono tutte quelle consultazioni in cui in gioco non c’è il governo del paese. In questo tipo di elezioni, la posta in gioco è inferiore, e, di conseguenza, i cittadini sono più liberi di esprimere sinceramente il proprio voto, senza considerazioni di...

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...