In multi-party systems, parties often form alliances before elections. What brings competing parties to coalesce into new entities? I present a model of electoral competition in which parties can form pre-electoral alliances and decide how binding these should be. Parties face a dynamic...

Comparative politics scholars have spent a much time exploring the causes and consequences of electoral volatility, and the result is that much has been learned about what leads both established and emerging democracies to experience electoral volatility. While different measures and factors...

The widespread second-order view on subnational elections leaves little room for the idea that subnational election campaigns matter for national-level electoral preferences. I challenge this perspective and explore the context-conditional role of subnational election campaigns for...