The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to investigate whether and to what extent the two major parties in Greece, ND and PASOK, are market-oriented, and (2) to examine how effectively the two existing political market orientationmodels can explain the Greek reality. These models,...

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of immigration on election outcomes. Our analysis makes use of data on city districts in Hamburg, Germany, during a period of substantial inflows of immigrants and asylum seekers. We find significant and robust effects for changes in foreigner...

Introduction / Pierre Ostiguy, Benjamin Moffitt, and Francisco Panizza -- Populism, hegemony and the political construction of "the people" : a discursive approach / Francisco Panizza and Yannis Stavrakakis -- Who would identify with an "empty signifier"? : the relational, performative approach...