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Supplemental material, populistturnout_appendix_v4 for Do Populist Parties Increase Voter Turnout? Evidence From Over 40 Years of Electoral History in 31 European Democracies by Arndt Leininger and Maurits J Meijers in Political Studies

Supplemental material, appendix for Measuring Populism in Political Parties: Appraisal of a New Approach by Maurits J. Meijers and Andrej Zaslove in Comparative Political Studies

Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ppq-10.1177_1354068820966573 for New kids on the ballot: The party-level determinants of new party success by Rein Wieringa and Maurits J Meijers in Party Politics

This project argues that Eurosceptic challenger parties can affect mainstream parties’ attitudes toward European integration in Western Europe. Defined as anti-European parties without governing experience, Eurosceptic challengers have become a pervasive electoral phenomenon. On the backdrop of both spatial theory and issue saliency theory of party competition, this project argues that Eurosceptic challenger parties can influence mainstream parties’ positions on as well as emphasis of the European integration issue. After comparative overview of party-based Euroscepticism, a historical and descriptive quantitative analysis of mainstream EU positions and EU issue salience demonstrates that mainstream party attitudes vary significantly over time – an important precondition for Eurosceptic challengers’ programmatic influence.(...), Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School; 03/2016