On the Elusive Nature of Modernisation in Government

Välfärdsstaden återbesökt. Politiskt deltagande i det nya Malmö.

Blaming Women or Blaming the System? Public Perceptions of Women's Underrepresentation in Elected Office

Does military pressure boost fiscal capacity? Evidence from late-modern military revolutions in Europe and North-America

New Quantitative Estimates of Long-Term Military Spending in Spain (1850–2009)

Do democracies spend less on the military? Spain as a long-term case study (1876-2009)

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Does military pressure boost fiscal capacity? Evidence from late-modern military revolutions in Europe and North-America

Do democracies spend less on the military? Spain as a long-term case study (1876-2009)

New Quantitative Estimates on Long-Term Military Spending in Spain (1850–2009)

Artificiell intelligens: vems ansvar?

Detta kapitel tar ett politiskt perspektiv på liv med artificiell intelligens som exempel. Kapitlet undersöker politiska initiativ om robotar och artificiell intelligens för att se hur beslutsfattare och deras rådgivare resonerar kring frågor om etik, demokrati och ansvar.

Review of Hugh Rockoff, America’s Economic Way of War: US Economy from the Spanish-American War to the Persian Gulf War

Reparation av murade fasader med korrosionsskador

Socialdemokratin och flyktingkrisen

Nationalismen är det modernas tecken

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Candidate selection is a major function exercised by political parties. Yet they differ a lot regarding who selects their candidates, varying on both dimensions of inclusiveness and centralisation. One can wonder whether these variations in the modes of candidate selection do really matter. The paper classifies ten Belgian political parties, for two federal elections – a regular (2007) and an earl

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Political parties throughout Europe are witnessing a significant professionalization of their daily functioning. Professionalization refers to an institutional process “by which professionals become more central to an organization, in this case a party” (Webb & Kolodny 2006: 338). The centrality of professionals is most obvious in parties’ reliance on an expanding body of professional staff me

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Belgium

Political Data Yearbook

The curious stability of candidate selection methods in Belgium in times of crisis

This chapter analyses a ‘negative case’ of change in candidate section. Although one expects the political crisis to trigger the emergence of new parties – and together with them of innovative (inclusive) forms of candidate selection, no major reform of internal party democracy has been observed in Belgium. The last decades have witnessed the rise of new parties, but these rather tend to select th