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Party ideology (2016)
Book Chapter
Carter, E. (2016). Party ideology. . Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315514574-10

Parties of the extreme right are to some extent ‘masters of their own success’. That is, regardless of the political environment in which they operate and regard less of the institutional contexts within which they find them selves, their elect oral... Read More about Party ideology.

Electoral Systems and Election Management (2010)
Book Chapter
Carter, E., & Farrell, D. M. (2010). Electoral Systems and Election Management. In L. LeDuc, R. G. Niemi, & P. Norris (Eds.), Comparing Democracies 3: Elections and Voting in the 21st Century. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446288740

The sine qua non of representative democracies is a process of elections that is fair and competitive. This is the role of electoral institutions, which determine how elections are fought, how the act of voting results in the election of political re... Read More about Electoral Systems and Election Management.

United Kingdom (2010)
Book Chapter
Carter, E., Loomes, G., & Carl Lundberg, T. (2010). United Kingdom. In The 2009 elections to the European Parliament country reports (177-182). Europa

Government change, organizational continuity: The limited Europeanization of British political parties (2006)
Book Chapter
Poguntke, T., Aylott, N., Carter, E., Ladrech, R., & Richard Luther, K. (2006). Government change, organizational continuity: The limited Europeanization of British political parties. In The Europeanization of National Political Parties. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203964958-9

The question of the United Kingdom’s (UK) relationship with, and role in, the European Union (EU) has been one of the most divisive and damaging issues in British party politics since the end of the Second World War. Furthermore, although it is perha... Read More about Government change, organizational continuity: The limited Europeanization of British political parties.

European integration and internal party dynamics (2006)
Book Chapter
Poguntke, T., Aylott, N., Carter, E., Ladrech, R., & Richard Luther, K. (2006). European integration and internal party dynamics. In The Europeanization of National Political Parties. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203964958-7

Academic research on ‘Europeanization’ has become a veritable growth industry over the last decade. The number of works that have addressed this theme in one form or another has soared (see Featherstone 2003; Mair 2004) and the numerous doctoral stud... Read More about European integration and internal party dynamics.

Changing Party Access to Elections (2003)
Book Chapter
Bowler, S., Carter, E., & Farrell, D. M. (2003). Changing Party Access to Elections. In Democracy Transformed? Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies (81-112). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/0199264996.003.0005

This chapter examines whether it has become easier or more difficult for political parties to participate in elections. It does this by comparing the electoral systems and the wider electoral laws (including those governing ballot access, media acces... Read More about Changing Party Access to Elections.