Acta Politica is proud to present a special collection of articles to celebrate 50 years of the journal.

Electoral Volatility and Party Change in the Low Countries

The Road from a Depoliticized to a Centrifugal Democracy
Huib Pellikaan, Tom van der Meer and Sarah de Lange


Do Individual Factors Explain the Different Success of the Two Belgian Extreme Right Parties
Hilde Coffé


Explaining the Rise of the LPF: Issues, Discontent, and the 2002 Dutch Election
Eric Bélanger and Kees Aarts


Electoral Volatility and the Dutch Party System: A Comparative Perspective
Peter Mair


Bounded volatility in the Dutch electoral battlefield: A panel study on the structure of changing vote intentions in the Netherlands during 2006–2010
Tom van der Meer, Rozemarijn Lubbe, Erika van Elsas, Martin Elff and Wouter van der Brug


Explaining the strange decline of the populist radical right Vlaams Belang in Belgium: The impact of permanent opposition
Teun Pauwels


Deliberation and Democratic Innovations

Acta Politica is proud to present a special collection of articles on the themes of deliberation and democratic innovations. These articles constitute a sample of core articles published in the journal over the past twenty years.

Experimenting with a Democratic Ideal: Deliberative Polling and Public Opinion
James S Fishkin & Robert C Luskin


A sequential analysis of democratic deliberation
Nicole Curato


A conceptual map of political participation
Jan W van Deth

A conceptual map of political participation
Jan W van Deth


More competent thus more legitimate? MPs’ discourses on deliberative mini-publics
Sacha Rangoni, Camille Bedock & David Talukder


Deliberation, East meets West: Exploring the cultural dimension of citizen deliberation
Seong-Jae Min


The ironic effect of deliberation: what we can (and cannot) expect in deeply divided societies
Juan E. Ugarriza & Natalia Trujillo-Orrego


Deliberation in Movement: Why and How to Study Deliberative Democracy and Social Movements
Donatella della Porta


The potential of deliberative reasoning: patterns of attitude change and consistency in cross-cutting and like-minded deliberation
Staffan Himmelroos & Henrik Serup Christensen


Media, Social Media and Politics

Acta Politica is proud to present a special collection of articles on the themes of media and politics. These articles constitute a sample of core articles published in the journal over the past twenty years.

Public opinion on Twitter? How vote choice and arguments on Twitter comply with patterns in survey data, evidence from the 2016 Ukraine referendum in the Netherlands
Marijn van Klingeren, Damian Trilling & Judith Möller


Augmenting polarization via social media? A comparative analysis of Trump’s and Wider’s online populist communication and the electorate’s interpretations surrounding the elections
Michael Hameleers


Political parties and social media campaigning
Niels Spierings & Kristof Jacobs


News, Political Knowledge and Participation: The Differential Effects of News Media Exposure on Political Knowledge and Participation
Claes H de Vreese & Hajo Boomgaarden


Media logic in the coverage of election promises: comparative evidence from the Netherlands and the US
Erkan Ergün & Niels Karsten


When politics becomes news: An analysis of parliamentary questions and press coverage in three West European countries
Rosa van Santen, Luzia Helfer & Peter van Aelst


Thrown around with abandon? Popular understandings of populism as conveyed by the print media: A UK case study
Tim Bale, Stijn van Kessel & Paul Taggart


Do information-rich contexts reduce knowledge inequalities? The contextual determinants of political knowledge in Europe
Marta Fraile