Who is Recruiting Our Crew? Contextual Determinants of MPs Selection
This article analyses the contextual determinants of parliamentary elites’ methods of selection. Using survey data from a representative...
The Breakdown of the Spanish Two-party System: The Upsurge
of Podemos and Ciudadanos in the 2015 Gen
The 2015 General Election (GE) marked the end of the two-party system that had existed in Spain since the restoration of democracy. Two...
Candidate Selection in a Multilevel State: the Case of Spain
The intra-party mechanisms for MPs selection has been only partially analyzed by the literature. Most works focus on parties’ written...
The Bright Side of the Economic Crisis: The Attribution of Political Responsibilities in Hard Times
We examine the impact of the current economic crisis on the accuracy of responsibility attribution between levels of government within...
Selecting Candidates in Multilevel Democracies
The article deals with a timely yet only partially researched topic: the selection of candidates for electoral lists in multilevel...
Economic Crisis and Support for Democracy in Europe
The study of the impact of the economic crisis on attitudes toward democracy tends to be focused on satisfaction with specific democratic...
Against Bipartyism, Towards Dealignment? The 2014
EP elections in Spain
The 2014 European Parliament (EP) election in Spain took place in a context of deep economic recession and distrust of political...
Cohesion and Candidate Selection in Parliamentary Groups
Previous literature has argued that MPs selected by party elites in a central and exclusive way are more disciplined than those belonging...
The Activation of the Religious Vote in Spain (1979-2011)
Spanish religious indicators have experienced one of the most drastic declines in Europe. The low levels of church attendance and...
Religiosity and Vote in 34 European Democracies
Social sciences have often claimed the end of religiosity as an explanatory factor of electoral behaviour in Europe. Nevertheless, left...
