We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency …

ethnic parties and their electorates in four new EU member states at the 2009 European Parliament elections. The paper builds …

This paper utilizes data from the 2009 European Election Study to investigate how experience with parliamentary … traditions at the national level and perceptions of the European Parliament at the European level interact to influence voting … governing parties suffer losses in EP elections, particularly in the middle of the election cycle; this research concludes that …