Observing the distribution of the old European Union 15 (EU15) governments ordered by political families since 1978, a sharp Right-Left partisan cycle seems to appear. If we hypothesize that the EU15 is one geo-political unit called Euroland, such an empirical observation is accurate both for...

Most common work in the literature is based on aggregated models (see e.g., Campbell and Lewis-Beck, 2008) with some important exceptions that use data at the state level, e.g., Rosenstone (1983), Holbrook (1991) and Campbell (1992). These aggregated models, are based on either survey results or...