Palgrave Macmillan

Brazil 2016–2018: A Double Political Alternation

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Chapitre d’ouvrage collectif – dans Olivier Dabène (dir.), Latin America’s Pendular Politics - Electoral Cycles and Alternations, Palgrave macmillan, “Studies of the Americas”, 2023, 203-221.

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This chapter analyses the conditions of the double alternation that marked Brazil between 2016 and 2018, a period that starts with the opening of the impeachment proceedings of D. Rousseff in December 2015 and ends with the accession to power of Jair Bolsonaro in January 2019.

 

Can Democratic Innovations Reconcile Citizens with Representative Institutions?

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Can democratic innovations (DIs) offer a cure for the widespread loss of support for electoral institutions? This widely held assumption among advocates of DIs should be questioned more thoroughly. Insufficient attention has been paid so far to the impact of different types of DIs on electoral legitimacy, defined as the support for the principles grounding electoral representation. What is at stake is the compatibility and equilibrium between different parts of the new democratic systems that are developing in many political contexts.

Belgium

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New chapter in the Palgrave Handbook of Radical Left Parties in Europe co-edited by Fabien Escalona, Daniel Keith, Luke March.

Great minds think alike? Ideological congruence between party members and leadership candidates

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A central premise in representative democracy is that people vote for the party or candidate offering the best fit with their policy preferences. While central in studies on general elections, ideological congruence is underexposed in studies on intraparty elections. Our research maps one-to-one congruence between individual party members and their preferred candidate in a party leadership contest, and investigates whether members with high political sophistication and strong party linkage are more likely to cast a congruent vote.

How Do Eurosceptics Wage Opposition in the European Parliament? Patterns of Behaviour in the 8th Legislature

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Euroscepticism has become a persistent phenomenon in European politics and particularly in the EP. It is therefore crucial to understand how Eurosceptic MEPs behave within an institution they criticise or even totally oppose and how the differences between Eurosceptics can be explained. This contribution aims to shed light on these questions by analysing the parliamentary behaviour of opposing voices in the 8th EP legislature (2014–2019).

Antagonistic understandings of sovereignty in the 2015 Polish constitutional crisis

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Since the 2015 parliamentary elections in Poland, the government led by the Law and Justice party (PiS) has sought to win two interwoven battles: the restoration of ‘a strong state’ internally and ‘regaining sovereignty’ in the country’s relationship with the EU. By examining the 2015 constitutional crisis in Poland, this article seeks to understand how and why a domestic dispute over the nomination of constitutional judges has transformed into a conflict of sovereignty in the EU polity.

A scandal effect? Local scandals and political trust

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Scandals that hit political institutions and their actors are likely to contribute to lowering political trust. However, few studies examine the accuracy of such relationship at the local level. This article aims to contribute to the field by assessing the impact of local scandals on trust in local government and the mayor in the context of a federal state, Belgium.