International organizations do not live forever. Recent empirical studies show that around 39% of international organizations created since 1815 have formally died. Yet we know, in fact, little about their decline and death. This is surprising as it is well-known that different forms of...

This paper compares and contrasts the processes used by the European, United Kingdom and Scottish parliaments in considering broadband policies, legislation, regulatory systems and outcomes, within a complex triple-tiered governance system. Broadband is of increasing importance due to the...

After the contentious electoral policy 2011-12 in Russia the new reform of party's legislation was conducted, that led to an increase in the number of political parties. Currently, 77 officially registered political parties are in the country. However, the regional legislative elections in...

Paper investigates the specificity of leadership in the system of political elite of transitional societies. In transitional societies fragmentation of the political élite leads to slackening of the vertical intra-élite control, as well as to the erosion of hierarchical envelopes of the power...

The question which the paper investigates is the studying of the political elite of dynamic transitional political regimes. Traditionally political élite is studied as a social group, in framework of such studies the personal structure of this group, the channels of incorporation and...

Populist party communication is a growing research area. However, measuring the concept empirically is challenging due to the context sensitivity of such rhetoric. In this paper, we present an approach that relies on a computer-assisted methods of text analysis to study populist communication on...

A reliable voter list is a necessary precondition for free and fair elections. However, many developing countries have persistent difficulties in registering their electors and establishing their identity. Following polemics about the quality of existing voter rolls, these countries have...

This paper argues that a more contextualized approach is necessary to shed a brighter light on the question of party convergence in social policy making. Such a contextualized comparison not only considers different political-institutional settings, it also accounts for country-specific...

The paper analyses the divergent outcomes of post-crisis derivative regulation in Europe. In the aftermath of the financial crisis, most regulatory issues only represent incremental changes of existing practices and incentives, tweaking rather than reforming the financial system and, mostly,...

In the current European crisis, neoliberal ideas dictate the policy agenda. The propagated solution in the European economic misery is “internal devaluation”: Austerity and labour market flexibilisation are the main goals of economic policy making. Focusing on labour market flexibilisation,...