Volume 57 (2016), Edition 3

Do local contextual factors influence unconventional political participation? As this question has been ignored by previous studies, this work explores economic, sociogeographical and cultural factors of unconventional participation (joining...

In the face of growing migration, the idea that voting rights should be independent of formal citizenship has become more and more attractive. However, critics object that the dissociation of political rights from formal membership in the polity...

Three hopes are associated with the new parliamentary early warnings system: It is hoped that the principle of subsidiarity will gain effectiveness, that the European political system will gain legitimacy, and that the pre-constitutional...

This paper evaluates the effect of an appointed commissioner for developing consolidation strategies for local public finances. So far, the evaluation concentrates on single-case studies of rare deployments of such a commissioner. The synthetic...

Electoral turnout in Germany has not only substantially declined over the last two decades, but also increasingly grown unequal among social groups. This paper makes use of a new dataset on the local variation in parties’ mobilisation efforts....