Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe.

The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises.

This article argues that the perforation of national states by immigration, integration and trade may signify a critical juncture in the political development of Europe no less consequential for political parties and party systems than the previous junctures that Lipset and Rokkan detect in their classic article. We present evidence suggesting that (1) party systems are determined in episodic breaks from the past; (2) political parties are programmatically inflexible; and, (3) as a consequence, party system change comes in the form of rising parties.

Cleavage theory meets Europe’s crises: Lipset, Rokkan, and the transnational cleavage

We investigate how the coronavirus pandemic affected the demand for online food shopping services using data from the largest agri-food e-commerce platform in Taiwan We find that an additional confirmed case of COVID-19 increased sales by 5 7% and the number of customers by 4 9% The demand for grains, fresh fruit and vegetables, and frozen foods increased the most, which benefited small farms over agribusinesses The variety of products sold on the e-commerce platform also increased during the pandemic, which suggests the concentration of sales on niche products could increase as more consumers are drawn to online platforms Our investigation of mechanisms for the shift to online food shopping indicates that sales were highly responsive to COVID-19 media coverage and online content © 2020 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association

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COVID-19 and the Demand for Online Food Shopping Services: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan

Democratic backsliding in Central Europe has so far been most acute in Hungary and Poland, states once considered frontrunners in democratisation In this paper, we explore to what extent developme

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Understanding the illiberal turn: democratic backsliding in the Czech Republic*

This article addresses the variation of anti-corruption and anti-elite salience in party positioning across Europe. It demonstrates that while anti-corruption salience is primarily related to the (regional) context in which a party operates, anti-elite salience is primarily a function of party ideology. Extreme left and extreme conservative (TAN) parties are significantly more likely to emphasize anti-elite views. Through its use of the new 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey wave, this article also introduces the dataset.

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Marko Zilovic

Papers

Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data