Journal articleComparative Political Studies · January 1, 2026
The puzzle posed by the lack of viable parties in Western democracies in the left-authoritarian quadrant of a two-dimensional space likely has demand- as well as supply-side explanations. This paper focuses on the demand side and argues that left-authorita ...
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Journal articlePolitics and Society · December 1, 2023
This article proposes a framework to analyze realignment processes in countries that transition from industrial to knowledge societies. It characterizes the electorate in terms of two traits that are main predictors for attitudes in a two-dimensional polic ...
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Journal articleDemocratization · January 2, 2020
This article explains the varieties of clientelistic vote exchange in contemporary electoral democracies. It distinguishes two commonly recognized modes of exchange according to their capacity to overcome the problem of opportunism–relational clientelism a ...
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Journal articlePolitics and Society · September 1, 2019
White American voters have realigned among the two dominant parties by income and education levels. This article argues that the interaction of education and income provides a more insightful—and stark—display of this change than treating them individually ...
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Journal articleComparative Political Studies · October 11, 2014
Political preferences are multi-dimensional, covering topics like redistribution, immigration, and abortion. But what accounts for people’s political preferences? We argue that an individual’s work experiences on the job play an important part in shaping a ...
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Journal articleComparative Political Studies · November 1, 2013
This article examines the relationship among a country's democratic experience, its level of economic development, and the prevalence of clientelistic and programmatic modes of democratic accountability. In contrast to the commonly accepted wisdom that cli ...
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Journal articleWest European Politics · May 1, 2010
The research papers assembled in this West European Politics issue are placed in an encompassing framework specifying components of the electoral and party studies research area. This makes it possible to identify complementarities, conflicts, and empty sp ...
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Journal articleCommunist and Post-Communist Studies. · October 2009
We investigate the effect of welfare state retrenchment on vote support for radical right parties in the 2000s. In countries with a legacy of national accommodative communism, early differentiation of major parties on socio-cultural issues and strategies o ...
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Journal articleRevista De Ciencia Politica · January 1, 2009
In this paper, we report on a new dataset based on expert surveys carried out in nearly 90 countries around the world. This dataset helps to overcome the limited existence of cross-national data on democratic linkage mechanisms between citizens and politic ...
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Journal articleWest European Politics · October 2007
The paper discusses the conceptualization of radical right wing parties. It then defends supply side explanations that focus on the convergence of conventional left and right parties as a condition that enables political entrepreneurs to create new elector ...
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Journal articleRevista Española de Ciencia Política · April 2004
Revista Española de Ciencia Política. Núm.
10, Abril 2004, pp. 9-51
Diversificación y reconfiguración
de los sistemas de partidos
de las democracias postindustriales * **
Herbert Kitschelt HERBERT KITSCHELT
DIVERSIFICACIÓN Y RECONFIGURACIÓN DE LOS
SISTE ...
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Journal articleInternational Politics and Society · 2004
Islamist terrorism is a response to
predatory regimes which no longer have the
means to co-opt their opponents and resort
to repression rather than negotiated
concessions. This type of regime is
widespread in the Middle East, not least due
to the reg ...
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Journal articleWest European Politics · October 1, 2003
Basic institutions and political power configurations that contributed to Germany's post-war social and economic success turned from assets into liabilities in the 1990s and beyond. This introduction highlights the emergence and interaction of the critical ...
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Journal articleParty Politics · 2000
reprinted in: Stephen White and Daniel Nelson, eds., The Politcs of the Post-Communist World, Volume I. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2000 ...
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Journal articleEuropean Journal of Political Research · January 1, 2000
This paper critiques what can be interpreted as an application of the literature on state failure in current political economy and political science to the changing role of political parties in advanced post-industrial democracies. Katz and Mair's theory o ...
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Journal articleComparative Political Studies · January 1, 2000
Research on democratic party competition in the formal spatial tradition of Downs and the comparative-historical tradition of Lipset and Rokkan assumes that linkages of accountability and responsiveness between voters and political elites work through poli ...
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Journal articleComparative Political Studies · January 1, 1994
Socialists and social democrats have probably nowhere been better entrenched than in Austria and Sweden. Yet in both countries, they have suffered electoral defeats in the 1980s and early 1990s, just as socialists in many other West European nations. Chang ...
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