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PD Dr. Martin Gross Abstract:Coalition governments prevail at the European subnational level. Although some studies explain the formation of subnational government coalitions, we know little about the determinants of individual parties’ likelihood of joining such coalitions. This article aims to fill this gap in empirical and theoretical ways. It shows that an important institutional constraintContinue reading “Determinants of Government Membership at the Subnational Level: Empirical Evidence from Large Cities in Germany (1999–2016)”

Martin Gross & Mihail Chiru Abstract:The emphasis national parties put on European Union (EU) issues in their manifestos varies to a great extent between countries. A systematic explanation of this variation is, however, still lacking. We address this gap by exploring the effect of the temporal proximity between national and European Parliament (EP) elections withinContinue reading “Time is on my side? The temporal proximity between elections and parties’ salience strategies”

Martin Gross, Svenja Krauss & Katrin Praprotnik  Elections are at the heart of representative democracies. Whereas the study of national elections is a prominent field in comparative politics, we still know little about subnational political actors’ behaviour. We seek to close this gap by applying a dictionary coding approach to analyse parties’ issue-based content ofContinue reading “Electoral strategies in multilevel systems: the effect of national politics on regional elections”

Klaus H. Goetz & Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen The COVID-19 pandemic that hit Europe in early 2020 radically reshaped the political agenda at all levels of Europe’s multi-level system within a matter of weeks. It continued to overshadow all other public concerns throughout 2021. The single most important development that distinguished the second year of theContinue reading “COVID-19 and European Multi-Level Democracy”