Add to ORKGRecent research suggests that European integration may have led political parties to adopt increasingly similar positions. This ideological convergence among parties could pose a democratic challenge if it also increases the gap between citizens and their representatives. Drawing on a new study, Daniel Devine and Raimondas Ibenskas find little evidence that the integration process has reduced the level of congruence between parties, governments and parliaments on one hand, and citizens on the other
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Solidarity towards other European countries and citizens became a polarising political topic in the ...
Decision-making in the Council of the European Union has long been characterised by a depoliticised ...
Many political parties in European countries belong to transnational party alliances, which are most...
Differentiated integration has become an important feature of the European integration process, but ...
The creation of a European social policy has been a long-held goal of many political actors across E...
Coalition governments are the norm in most European countries, but how do the dynamics of coalition ...
Following the 2019 European Parliament elections, Mary Kaldor argues that developing substantive dem...
The issue of democratic backsliding in the EU’s member states has received substantial attention in ...
The concept of ‘transnationalism’ refers to the extent to which an individual’s background, interact...
Coalition negotiations are still ongoing between the German Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democr...
Elections in new democracies such as those in Central and Eastern Europe are often expected to be vo...
EU treaty reforms have progressively increased the power of the European Parliament by making it a c...
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