A Research Agenda in Elections and Voting Behavior in a Global and Changing World
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
A Research Agenda in Elections and Voting Behavior in a Global and Changing World
Citizens' Contrasting Aspirations About Their Political System: Entrustment, Participation, Identification and Control
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
Empirical political science has increasingly focused on citizens' conceptions of their political system. Most existing studies draw upon large quantitative datasets which have produced contradictory results. Qualitative approaches are used more and more commonly to identify the general narrative produced by ordinary citizens on their political syst...
Politics of Technology—Specialty Grand Challenge
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
What Is Youth Political Participation? Literature Review on Youth Political Participation and Political Attitudes
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
Looking at political participation behavior of young adults in contemporary Europe, this paper provides the reader with a map of different terminologies and logics that are used to discuss youth political participation. The existing literature is examined through the lens of five guiding questions: what defines youth political participation? How do...
Grand Challenges in Studying Comparative Governance
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
From the Eurozone Debt Crisis to the Alternative for Germany
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
The sudden rise and subsequent radicalization of the “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) has been one of the politically most important consequences of the Eurozone debt crisis in Germany, both in relation to domestic politics and in the broader context of European-level right-wing populism. While initially founded as a single-issue party in opposition...
Why Voting Does Not Imply Consenting
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
One of the reasons that elections have come to be so widely valued across the globe lies in their perceived ability to increase citizens' consent to be governed by their representatives. Yet, inversely, one may ask what election results tell us about citizens' consent. For instance, to what extent can election winners be assumed to enjoy citizens' ...
Can the Recall Improve Electoral Representation?
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
Empirical studies reveal many citizens' unwillingness to get rid of representative democracy. A great number of them, however, distrust their representatives and would want representation to be improved, for example by giving citizens more control over their representatives. One possible mechanism of control is the recall—the possibility to remove ...
Moral Collapse and State Failure: A View From the Past
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
We have found that collective action theory, as developed by Margaret Levi and others, provides a new direction for the study of growth and decline of premodern states. By following this lead, we challenge the traditional consensus that despotic rule and relations characterized most premodern states, demonstrating instead a state-building process i...
Is It Interests, Ideas or Institutions? Explaining Elected Representatives' Positions Toward Democratic Innovations in 1...
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
In response to the alleged legitimacy crisis, representative democracies have in recent years witnessed increased demands for democratic innovations aimed at giving citizens a more direct say in decision-making. Such initiatives, however, often rock the foundations of the model of representative democracy which assumes a more indirect link between ...
