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View article: Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century
Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century Open
Western Europe is experiencing growing levels of political polarization between parties of the New Left and the Far Right. The authors argue that this antagonism reflects the emergence of a social cleavage between universalism and particul…
View article: The Politics of Extractivism: Mining, Institutional Responsiveness, and Social Resistance
The Politics of Extractivism: Mining, Institutional Responsiveness, and Social Resistance Open
Natural resource exploitation often generates negative externalities and fuels social conflict. Yet, patterns of social resistance against mining differ considerably within and across countries. What explains differences in the occurrence …
View article: How “Us” and “Them” Relates to Voting Behavior—Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice
How “Us” and “Them” Relates to Voting Behavior—Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice Open
The last decades have seen the emergence of a divide pitting the new left against the far right in advanced democracies. We study how this universalism-particularism divide is crystallizing into a full-blown cleavage, complete with structu…
View article: Replication Data for: How ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Relates to Voting Behavior - Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice
Replication Data for: How ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Relates to Voting Behavior - Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice Open
Replication materials for: How ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Relates to Voting Behavior - Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice (data and syntax) Abstract: The last decades have seen the emergence of a divide pitting the new left aga…
View article: Combining deductive and inductive elements to measure party system responsiveness in challenging contexts: an approach with evidence from Latin America
Combining deductive and inductive elements to measure party system responsiveness in challenging contexts: an approach with evidence from Latin America Open
Contexts outside the advanced developed democracies present a challenge to assessing how well party systems reflect voter preferences across over-arching policy dimensions because not all electorates readily interpret political conflict in…
View article: Party system responsiveness and left-wing populist success in Latin America
Party system responsiveness and left-wing populist success in Latin America Open
This paper sets out to explain the highly uneven breakthrough of the “populist” or “contestatory” left during the “left turn” in Latin America since the late 1990s. Extant attempts to explain why moderate left parties that resemble the tra…
View article: Populist Mobilization Across Time and Space: An Introduction
Populist Mobilization Across Time and Space: An Introduction Open
Populism has become pervasive in political language and in the diagnosis of the malaise of contemporary politics. At the same time, more narrow definitions of populism have become shared in scholarship on the subject, nourishing more analy…
View article: Party System Responsiveness and Left-Wing Populist Success in Latin America
Party System Responsiveness and Left-Wing Populist Success in Latin America Open
This paper sets out to explain the highly uneven breakthrough of the “populist” or “contestatory” left during the “left turn” in Latin America since the late 1990s. Extant attempts to explain why moderate left parties that resemble the tra…
View article: Historical Polarization and Representation in South American Party Systems, 1900–1990
Historical Polarization and Representation in South American Party Systems, 1900–1990 Open
Although ideological polarization can create problems for governability and democratic stability, this article argues that it also has beneficial effects in new democracies. By clarifying the political alternatives, polarization creates st…