Ekaterina R Rashkova
Biographic Data
| ID | 1534494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ekaterina R Rashkova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ekaterina R |
| FAMILY NAME | Rashkova |
| SIGNATURE | RASHKOVA E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8772-2166 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 223 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Champions and late bloomers: What determines the speed and stringency of policy decisions in times of crises
While the COVID-19 pandemic has come and, to a large extent, has gone, there is still a lot to be learned about political decision-making and effective governance from what the world experienced in 2020 and 2021. Some countries adopted stricter policies right away, while others took more time to increase restrictions aimed to prevent the spread of the virus. Despite the large amount of work on the impact of COVID-19 on various aspects of states d…
Exogenous Shocks and Party System Development: What is the Effect on New Party Entry
The politics of resentment: What is it and how is it mobilized by populist radical right-wing parties in different contexts
The role of emotions in politics is drawing increasing scholarly attention. Yet, despite this heightened interest, the ways in which politicians concretely appeal to emotions of their target audience are still blurry. Let aside how they do so in different contexts. This article focuses on an affect that is frequently mentioned as the key driver explaining the electoral appeal of populist radical right-wing parties (PRRPs): resentment. In that res…
The Covid-19 pandemic and the electoral performance of governing parties in electoral democracies
The COVID-19 pandemic has had tremendous impacts on political, economic and social developments across the globe. Although some studies show that voters tend to hold incumbent parties accountable for managing the pandemic, the results of others suggest that the rally-round-the-flag strategy might be at plan. We contend that voters tend to hold the incumbent party accountable, even during an exogenous shock, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypot…
The field of gender and substantive representation: Re-conceptualising, measurement and implications
Today, equality, diversity and inclusion are commonly encountered themes linked to multiple social protests on women's rights and racial justice.One of the main questions for political science scholars of representation is: how and by whom are disadvantaged and marginalised groups who are at a higher risk of social exclusion and discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, race, nationality, age and disability represented in public debates and poli…
Introduction to Symposium: The Substantive Representation of Disadvantaged Groups – Taking Stock and Moving Forward
This symposium takes stock of current developments in the field of substantive representation of disadvantaged social groups. It revisits traditional presence-based approaches to substantive representation and suggests new and innovative avenues for the study of substantive representation across groups, venues and contexts. Together, the five contributions discuss new conceptualizations and measurements of substantive representation, as well as t…
Measuring the Substantive Representation of Women Cross-Nationally: Towards a Composite Index
Recent scholarship on women’s substantive representation has expanded from its initial focus on gender inequalities in parliaments and now studies (1) various group interests, (2) in different venues, (3) across different contexts and (4) using different methods and approaches. Building on these advances, we present a new comparative measure of women’s substantive representation. This ‘Substantive Representation Index’ combines eight indicators, …
The substantive representation of social groups: Towards a new comparative research agenda
This article maps the field of substantive representation of social groups and carves out a new research agenda. Examining a database of 313 publications, we identify patterns in what is studied in the field and how it is studied. Our findings suggest that while scholarship on the substantive representation of social groups has expanded over the years, many studies still predominantly (1) analyse the representation of women in (2) the governmenta…
Looking back and looking forward: 20 Years of European Political Science serving the political science community in Europe and beyond
Anniversaries are milestone events. They invite those involved to celebrate their achievements, but also reflect about the past, present and future. The 20th anniversary of European Political Science (EPS) is such a landmark. It marks a success story; the development from a news style magazine to a major political science journal. Over the past 20 years, EPS has developed into an outlet in which political scientists exchange about their professio…
The Bulgarian Diaspora Vote: A Case of A Large Untapped Electoral Potential
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The Party Abroad in a Time of Global Societal Transformation: An Introduction
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The distribution of authors and reviewers in EPS
Gender inequality as a phenomenon is also present in academic writing and publishing. In this article, we review the gender imbalance in the percentage of authors and reviewers in EPS from 2015 to 2019. At the submissions stage, male authors submit approximately twice as many manuscripts compared to female authors. At the publication stage, there is less of a gender difference due to a higher success rate for female authors. For reviewers, howeve…
The future of Europe and the role of Eastern Europe in its past, present and future
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and over a decade after its reunification, the European Union (EU) is experiencing increasingly more challenges toward its unity. The EU has experienced a number of crises in the early 2000s, the breakaway of one of its members in 2019, and is challenged by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The latter crisis exhibits, on the one hand, the need for social coherence and unified policies, and on the other…
Publishing in political science journals
Publication in academic journals is a critical part of the academic career. However, writing academic papers and getting them published is not a straightforward task. This article seeks to provide editors’ insights into the process of publishing by outlining common factors that lead to papers being rejected as well as charting strategies that ensure papers have the best chance of being sent out for review. The article discusses the important issu…
Setting-up the Stage: Party Competition and Electoral Law in Central and East-Europe
The aim of this paper is to study the effect of electoral regulation on party system development. Using a new database, this study shows existing variation in regulating electoral competition. It further illustrates that, perhaps contrary to electoral regulation design, increases in the amount of regulation about funding and monitoring have a stifling, rather than a stimulating, effect on party system size. More importantly, the paper provides ev…
Gender Politics and Radical Right Parties: An Examination of Women’s Substantive Representation in Slovakia
On the crossroads between preserving a nationalist rhetoric and adding ways in which it can offer an alternative to mainstream politics, the Slovak Radical Right has transformed itself from having an unsteady presence in parliament over the last two decades to having two nationalist parties with a significant portion of seats. This article examines the radical right parties’ (RRPs’) gender rhetoric and parliamentary activity, and in comparison to…
Political finance regimes and party system size: Evidence from new and established European democracies
Studies of party system size have looked at institutional and sociological factors in their attempt to explain what determines the number of parties. While some recent studies contend that party laws, beyond the district magnitude, have a significant impact on, among others, new party entry, we know very little about whether certain rules matter more in some societies than they do in others. In this paper, we study the extent to which various par…
Globalisation and the Movement of People: What It Means for Party Politics? An Introduction
Living in a globalised world, with its inherent easier movement of people between nations, imposes new challenges for representative democracy and for party politics specifically. Political parties have traditionally operated at a domestic level, yet, with the large number of people moving around the globe, this is now changing. This special section, deriving from a workshop on the topic, is one of the first attempts to systematically address thi…
The Party Abroad, the World of Professional Electoral and Democracy Assistance, and the Way Forward
This article presents developments around the party abroad phenomenon within the world of international democracy assistance. It provides an overview of where ‘the party abroad’ sits as a topic within the broader field of democracy assistance, and how democracy assistance providers have addressed it in the past. It argues that even though the party abroad has grown among political parties themselves, it has thus far received scant attention from …
The Party Abroad: A New Modus Operandi for Political Parties
In an era where millions of people live elsewhere than their country of birth and many hold multiple nationalities, the questions of who and how represents these people becomes imperative. The traditional manner of representation is through political parties, yet the form in which parties have historically existed is within state bounds. Throughout time, we have witnessed the transition from cadre to cartel parties and through them the changing r…
The Party Abroad and its Role for National Party Politics
In various countries, the electoral behaviour of citizens who live outside their nation of origin—the diaspora—has played a key role in the success of political parties in their home countries. The research presented in this Discussion Paper looks at the idea of the party abroad and aims to explain how and to what extent national political elites engage with citizens who live
Ministerial Politics in Southeastern Europe: Appointment and Portfolio Allocation to Female Ministers
In light of the growing scholarship on women's representation in the executive, we examine whether extant theories on the determinants of female ministerial appointments apply to and explain the role of women in the executive in new democracies. We are further interested in better understanding the dynamics of portfolio allocation to female ministers. Given the different meanings that the political left and right carry in new compared with establ…
Talking the talk, but not walking the walk: Gender equality in Eastern Europe
In a world that has many campaigns against discrimination, that has female candidates running for president, that has gay couples waking around with a stroller, or two men or two women holding hand
Still men’s parties? Gender and the radical right in comparative perspective
This framing paper introduces the symposium on gender and the radical right. With the exception of a few recent studies, gender issues have received little attention in research on the European radical right. The purpose of this symposium is to address that and examine (1) whether radical right parties are still ‘men’s parties’–parties led and supported primarily by men and (2) to what extent and how women and women’s concerns have been included …
Are (populist) radical right parties Männerparteien? Evidence from Bulgaria
This paper focuses on the representation of women in radical right parties and examines the often assumed relationship between the radical right and gender, namely that radical right parties are overwhelmingly ran, supported by, and representing the male part of the population. Using data from elections, party platforms, and parliamentary committees the paper asks ‘Are PRR parties Männerparteien?’ Using data from Bulgaria, we suggest that the Män…
Deterring new party entry? The impact of state regulation on the permeability of party systems
Despite the growing amount of party regulation, we still have a limited understanding of the effect that party laws have on party systems and political competition. Notwithstanding predictions that incumbent parties adopt rules which favour their own position, found in both the cartel party thesis and the rational actor view of politics, we continue to witness the frequent appearance of new political parties, some of which successfully enter parl…
Still men’s parties? Gender and the radical right in comparative perspective
This framing paper introduces the symposium on gender and the radical right. With the exception of a few recent studies, gender issues have received little attention in research on the European radical right. The purpose of this symposium is to address that and examine (1) whether radical right parties are still ‘men’s parties’–parties led and supported primarily by men and (2) to what extent and how women and women’s concerns have been included …
The world upside down: Delegitimising political finance regulation
Political finance regulation is often praised in terms of its ability to introduce equality among political parties, to create more transparent political parties and to lower the influence of affluent donors on the political decision-making process. Little examination exists, however, of the effectiveness of this type of regulation. This article aims to fill this gap by addressing whether and to what extent different types of public funding regul…
Are (populist) radical right parties Männerparteien? Evidence from Bulgaria
This paper focuses on the representation of women in radical right parties and examines the often assumed relationship between the radical right and gender, namely that radical right parties are overwhelmingly ran, supported by, and representing the male part of the population. Using data from elections, party platforms, and parliamentary committees the paper asks ‘Are PRR parties Männerparteien?’ Using data from Bulgaria, we suggest that the Män…
The Party Abroad: A New Modus Operandi for Political Parties
In an era where millions of people live elsewhere than their country of birth and many hold multiple nationalities, the questions of who and how represents these people becomes imperative. The traditional manner of representation is through political parties, yet the form in which parties have historically existed is within state bounds. Throughout time, we have witnessed the transition from cadre to cartel parties and through them the changing r…
Gender Politics and Radical Right Parties: An Examination of Women’s Substantive Representation in Slovakia
On the crossroads between preserving a nationalist rhetoric and adding ways in which it can offer an alternative to mainstream politics, the Slovak Radical Right has transformed itself from having an unsteady presence in parliament over the last two decades to having two nationalist parties with a significant portion of seats. This article examines the radical right parties’ (RRPs’) gender rhetoric and parliamentary activity, and in comparison to…
Political finance regimes and party system size: Evidence from new and established European democracies
Studies of party system size have looked at institutional and sociological factors in their attempt to explain what determines the number of parties. While some recent studies contend that party laws, beyond the district magnitude, have a significant impact on, among others, new party entry, we know very little about whether certain rules matter more in some societies than they do in others. In this paper, we study the extent to which various par…
Learning the Game: Explaining Party System Convergence in European Democracies
While many works have empirically studied the number of parties, little has been done to investigate the difference between theoretical predictions and empirical reality. Furthermore, the bulk of the analyses on party system development are carried out with national data, as opposed to studying electoral competition at the level where it occurs — the constituency. This article offers a comparative study of the determinants of party system converg…
Ethnic heterogeneity and party system size: A district-level analysis
Does Parity Exist in the ‘Macho’ World? Party Regulation and Gender Representation in the Balkans
Recent work on the regulation of political parties looks at the question of whether increasing regulation promotes democracy, or whether it creates barriers to entry and thus damages at least one of the rights guaranteed by democratic political systems—the right to be represented. How regulation affects representation is particularly important to under-represented groups—ethnic, religious, or gender. Focusing on the representation of women, we ex…
The substantive representation of social groups: Towards a new comparative research agenda
This article maps the field of substantive representation of social groups and carves out a new research agenda. Examining a database of 313 publications, we identify patterns in what is studied in the field and how it is studied. Our findings suggest that while scholarship on the substantive representation of social groups has expanded over the years, many studies still predominantly (1) analyse the representation of women in (2) the governmenta…
Ministerial Politics in Southeastern Europe: Appointment and Portfolio Allocation to Female Ministers
In light of the growing scholarship on women's representation in the executive, we examine whether extant theories on the determinants of female ministerial appointments apply to and explain the role of women in the executive in new democracies. We are further interested in better understanding the dynamics of portfolio allocation to female ministers. Given the different meanings that the political left and right carry in new compared with establ…
Globalisation and the Movement of People: What It Means for Party Politics? An Introduction
Living in a globalised world, with its inherent easier movement of people between nations, imposes new challenges for representative democracy and for party politics specifically. Political parties have traditionally operated at a domestic level, yet, with the large number of people moving around the globe, this is now changing. This special section, deriving from a workshop on the topic, is one of the first attempts to systematically address thi…
The legal regulation of political parties: Contesting or promoting legitimacy
Recent waves of social protests have brought a renewed interest in the notion of political legitimacy. The increasing adoption of party regulation as a means to secure legitimacy, however, leads to several paradoxes. One such paradox is the fact that those who establish the rules about political parties are representatives of the political parties themselves. Despite this existing contention, the relationship between political legitimacy and part…
Introduction: Gender Politics and Party Regulation. Quotas and Beyond
The subject of party regulation has begun to occupy important place within the field of party politics. To date, however, few studies have analysed the legal regulation of party activity and behaviour from a gender perspective. At the same time, in the gender literature quotas remain the institutional instrument that have drawn the largest amount of scholarly attention, but the impact of the broader regulatory framework for parties on gender repr…
The Covid-19 pandemic and the electoral performance of governing parties in electoral democracies
The COVID-19 pandemic has had tremendous impacts on political, economic and social developments across the globe. Although some studies show that voters tend to hold incumbent parties accountable for managing the pandemic, the results of others suggest that the rally-round-the-flag strategy might be at plan. We contend that voters tend to hold the incumbent party accountable, even during an exogenous shock, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypot…
The field of gender and substantive representation: Re-conceptualising, measurement and implications
Today, equality, diversity and inclusion are commonly encountered themes linked to multiple social protests on women's rights and racial justice.One of the main questions for political science scholars of representation is: how and by whom are disadvantaged and marginalised groups who are at a higher risk of social exclusion and discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, race, nationality, age and disability represented in public debates and poli…
Party regulation and the conditioning of small political parties: Evidence from Bulgaria
Since the fall of communism and the transition to democracy all East-European states have transitioned to multiparty democracies. However, the legal frameworks within which parties function differ substantially among countries. Some countries embrace diversity without posing obstacles to mobilisation on ethnic grounds, for example, while others prohibit the establishment and existence of parties of ethnic ideology. Here, we study how Bulgarian pa…
Exogenous Shocks and Party System Development: What is the Effect on New Party Entry
The politics of resentment: What is it and how is it mobilized by populist radical right-wing parties in different contexts
The role of emotions in politics is drawing increasing scholarly attention. Yet, despite this heightened interest, the ways in which politicians concretely appeal to emotions of their target audience are still blurry. Let aside how they do so in different contexts. This article focuses on an affect that is frequently mentioned as the key driver explaining the electoral appeal of populist radical right-wing parties (PRRPs): resentment. In that res…
Measuring the Substantive Representation of Women Cross-Nationally: Towards a Composite Index
Recent scholarship on women’s substantive representation has expanded from its initial focus on gender inequalities in parliaments and now studies (1) various group interests, (2) in different venues, (3) across different contexts and (4) using different methods and approaches. Building on these advances, we present a new comparative measure of women’s substantive representation. This ‘Substantive Representation Index’ combines eight indicators, …
Looking back and looking forward: 20 Years of European Political Science serving the political science community in Europe and beyond
Anniversaries are milestone events. They invite those involved to celebrate their achievements, but also reflect about the past, present and future. The 20th anniversary of European Political Science (EPS) is such a landmark. It marks a success story; the development from a news style magazine to a major political science journal. Over the past 20 years, EPS has developed into an outlet in which political scientists exchange about their professio…
The distribution of authors and reviewers in EPS
Gender inequality as a phenomenon is also present in academic writing and publishing. In this article, we review the gender imbalance in the percentage of authors and reviewers in EPS from 2015 to 2019. At the submissions stage, male authors submit approximately twice as many manuscripts compared to female authors. At the publication stage, there is less of a gender difference due to a higher success rate for female authors. For reviewers, howeve…
The 2011 Presidential election in Bulgaria: Have Bulgarians left the Left
Territory and electoral rules in post-Communist democracies
Territory and electoral rules in post-Communist democracies, by Daniel Bochsler, Houndmills, Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, 232 pp., €89.99 (hardback), ISBN 100230248276, ISBN 139780230248274 In his amb
Ethnic heterogeneity and party system size: A district-level analysis
Does Parity Exist in the ‘Macho’ World? Party Regulation and Gender Representation in the Balkans
Recent work on the regulation of political parties looks at the question of whether increasing regulation promotes democracy, or whether it creates barriers to entry and thus damages at least one of the rights guaranteed by democratic political systems—the right to be represented. How regulation affects representation is particularly important to under-represented groups—ethnic, religious, or gender. Focusing on the representation of women, we ex…
Introduction: Gender Politics and Party Regulation. Quotas and Beyond
The subject of party regulation has begun to occupy important place within the field of party politics. To date, however, few studies have analysed the legal regulation of party activity and behaviour from a gender perspective. At the same time, in the gender literature quotas remain the institutional instrument that have drawn the largest amount of scholarly attention, but the impact of the broader regulatory framework for parties on gender repr…
Learning the Game: Explaining Party System Convergence in European Democracies
While many works have empirically studied the number of parties, little has been done to investigate the difference between theoretical predictions and empirical reality. Furthermore, the bulk of the analyses on party system development are carried out with national data, as opposed to studying electoral competition at the level where it occurs — the constituency. This article offers a comparative study of the determinants of party system converg…
Deterring new party entry? The impact of state regulation on the permeability of party systems
Despite the growing amount of party regulation, we still have a limited understanding of the effect that party laws have on party systems and political competition. Notwithstanding predictions that incumbent parties adopt rules which favour their own position, found in both the cartel party thesis and the rational actor view of politics, we continue to witness the frequent appearance of new political parties, some of which successfully enter parl…
The world upside down: Delegitimising political finance regulation
Political finance regulation is often praised in terms of its ability to introduce equality among political parties, to create more transparent political parties and to lower the influence of affluent donors on the political decision-making process. Little examination exists, however, of the effectiveness of this type of regulation. This article aims to fill this gap by addressing whether and to what extent different types of public funding regul…
The legal regulation of political parties: Contesting or promoting legitimacy
Recent waves of social protests have brought a renewed interest in the notion of political legitimacy. The increasing adoption of party regulation as a means to secure legitimacy, however, leads to several paradoxes. One such paradox is the fact that those who establish the rules about political parties are representatives of the political parties themselves. Despite this existing contention, the relationship between political legitimacy and part…
Party regulation and the conditioning of small political parties: Evidence from Bulgaria
Since the fall of communism and the transition to democracy all East-European states have transitioned to multiparty democracies. However, the legal frameworks within which parties function differ substantially among countries. Some countries embrace diversity without posing obstacles to mobilisation on ethnic grounds, for example, while others prohibit the establishment and existence of parties of ethnic ideology. Here, we study how Bulgarian pa…
Party system change at work: The 2014 legislative election in Bulgaria
Als relativ neue Demokratie sieht sich Bulgarien einer Reihe Herausforderungen gegenüber; dazu gehört etwa die Schwierigkeit politisch stabile Bedingungen für die weitere ökonomische Entwicklung des Landes sowie seine Rolle in der Europäischen Union herzustellen. Nach wie vor übt Rußland großen Einfluß auf Bulgarien aus; gleichzeitig gibt es verstärkte Ambitionen das Land mehr nach Westen zu orientieren. Als Konsequenz ergaben die Wahlen in 2014 …
EPS symposium diversity and inclusion in political science
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link
Talking the talk, but not walking the walk: Gender equality in Eastern Europe
In a world that has many campaigns against discrimination, that has female candidates running for president, that has gay couples waking around with a stroller, or two men or two women holding hand
Still men’s parties? Gender and the radical right in comparative perspective
This framing paper introduces the symposium on gender and the radical right. With the exception of a few recent studies, gender issues have received little attention in research on the European radical right. The purpose of this symposium is to address that and examine (1) whether radical right parties are still ‘men’s parties’–parties led and supported primarily by men and (2) to what extent and how women and women’s concerns have been included …
Are (populist) radical right parties Männerparteien? Evidence from Bulgaria
This paper focuses on the representation of women in radical right parties and examines the often assumed relationship between the radical right and gender, namely that radical right parties are overwhelmingly ran, supported by, and representing the male part of the population. Using data from elections, party platforms, and parliamentary committees the paper asks ‘Are PRR parties Männerparteien?’ Using data from Bulgaria, we suggest that the Män…
The Party Abroad and its Role for National Party Politics
In various countries, the electoral behaviour of citizens who live outside their nation of origin—the diaspora—has played a key role in the success of political parties in their home countries. The research presented in this Discussion Paper looks at the idea of the party abroad and aims to explain how and to what extent national political elites engage with citizens who live
Ministerial Politics in Southeastern Europe: Appointment and Portfolio Allocation to Female Ministers
In light of the growing scholarship on women's representation in the executive, we examine whether extant theories on the determinants of female ministerial appointments apply to and explain the role of women in the executive in new democracies. We are further interested in better understanding the dynamics of portfolio allocation to female ministers. Given the different meanings that the political left and right carry in new compared with establ…
The distribution of authors and reviewers in EPS
Gender inequality as a phenomenon is also present in academic writing and publishing. In this article, we review the gender imbalance in the percentage of authors and reviewers in EPS from 2015 to 2019. At the submissions stage, male authors submit approximately twice as many manuscripts compared to female authors. At the publication stage, there is less of a gender difference due to a higher success rate for female authors. For reviewers, howeve…
The future of Europe and the role of Eastern Europe in its past, present and future
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and over a decade after its reunification, the European Union (EU) is experiencing increasingly more challenges toward its unity. The EU has experienced a number of crises in the early 2000s, the breakaway of one of its members in 2019, and is challenged by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The latter crisis exhibits, on the one hand, the need for social coherence and unified policies, and on the other…
Publishing in political science journals
Publication in academic journals is a critical part of the academic career. However, writing academic papers and getting them published is not a straightforward task. This article seeks to provide editors’ insights into the process of publishing by outlining common factors that lead to papers being rejected as well as charting strategies that ensure papers have the best chance of being sent out for review. The article discusses the important issu…
Setting-up the Stage: Party Competition and Electoral Law in Central and East-Europe
The aim of this paper is to study the effect of electoral regulation on party system development. Using a new database, this study shows existing variation in regulating electoral competition. It further illustrates that, perhaps contrary to electoral regulation design, increases in the amount of regulation about funding and monitoring have a stifling, rather than a stimulating, effect on party system size. More importantly, the paper provides ev…
Gender Politics and Radical Right Parties: An Examination of Women’s Substantive Representation in Slovakia
On the crossroads between preserving a nationalist rhetoric and adding ways in which it can offer an alternative to mainstream politics, the Slovak Radical Right has transformed itself from having an unsteady presence in parliament over the last two decades to having two nationalist parties with a significant portion of seats. This article examines the radical right parties’ (RRPs’) gender rhetoric and parliamentary activity, and in comparison to…
Political finance regimes and party system size: Evidence from new and established European democracies
Studies of party system size have looked at institutional and sociological factors in their attempt to explain what determines the number of parties. While some recent studies contend that party laws, beyond the district magnitude, have a significant impact on, among others, new party entry, we know very little about whether certain rules matter more in some societies than they do in others. In this paper, we study the extent to which various par…
Globalisation and the Movement of People: What It Means for Party Politics? An Introduction
Living in a globalised world, with its inherent easier movement of people between nations, imposes new challenges for representative democracy and for party politics specifically. Political parties have traditionally operated at a domestic level, yet, with the large number of people moving around the globe, this is now changing. This special section, deriving from a workshop on the topic, is one of the first attempts to systematically address thi…
The Party Abroad, the World of Professional Electoral and Democracy Assistance, and the Way Forward
This article presents developments around the party abroad phenomenon within the world of international democracy assistance. It provides an overview of where ‘the party abroad’ sits as a topic within the broader field of democracy assistance, and how democracy assistance providers have addressed it in the past. It argues that even though the party abroad has grown among political parties themselves, it has thus far received scant attention from …
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