Daniele Caramani

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative and long-term in-depth analysis of the macro-historical process of the nationalization of politics is presented, using a large wealth of newly collected and unexplored data on single constituency in 17 West European countries, as well as their evolution since the mid-nineteenth century from highly territorialised politics of early competitive elections toward nationwide alignments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare analytically populism and technocratic as alternative forms of political representation to party government, and highlight their differences, arguing that both are based on a unitary, nonpluralist, unmediated, and unaccountable vision of society's general interest.

TL;DR: The Success Factors for Women's and Children's Health (SELF) studies as discussed by the authors investigated why some countries achieve faster progress than other comparable countries in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by using statistical and econometric analyses of data from 144 low and middle-income countries (LMICs).

TL;DR: The Societies of Europe as discussed by the authors provides a systematic and standardized collection of general elections results at the level of sngle constituency for 18 Western European countries since the 19th century, accompanied by thorough documentation.