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2026, volume 14

Citizenwashing EU Tech Policy: EU Deliberative Mini‐Publics on Virtual Worlds and Artificial Intelligence

Perle Petit and Alvaro Oleart

Working Behind the Scenes: Roles and Functions of French and German Parliamentary Staff

Henriette Heimbach

Staff Matters: The Effect of Political Group Staff on MP Activity in the Netherlands

Simon Otjes and Gijs Jan Brandsma

The Invisible Architects of Public Engagement: Understanding the Different Types of Roles Played by Parliamentary Staff

Sofia Serra-Silva and Cristina Leston-Bandeira

Institutionalizing Democratic Innovations in Poland: Mapping the Evolution of Citizens’ Assemblies Through Rules of Procedure

Paulina Pospieszna and Marta Hoffmann

From Advisor to Interparliamentary Networker: A Typology of Parliamentary Officials in EU Affairs

Anna-Lena Högenauer and Christine Neuhold

Who’s Got MPs’ Back? Understanding the Drivers of Specialisation in the Offices of MPs

Lena Stephan and Anna-Lena Högenauer

The Parapolitical Path to Parliament: Former Political Support Staff as Parliamentary Members

Anchrit Wille and Mark Bovens

From Efficiency to Deliberation: Rethinking AI’s Role in Institutionalizing Democratic Innovations

Arild Ohren, Elizabeth Calderón Lüning, Čedomir Markov and Max Stearns

“More” or “Better” Institutionalization? Lessons From Latin American Institutions of Citizen Participation

Benjamin Goldfrank, Melisa Ross and Yanina Welp

Echoes and Barriers: Staff as Key Actors in the Representative Process

Meagan Cloutier

Role Conceptualisations and the Purple Zone: Parliamentary Staff Through the Eyes of Former MPs

Kanerva Kuokkanen and Marjukka Weide

A Chapter on Institutionalization: The Use and Misuse of Institutions of Citizen Participation in Hungary

Eszter Kovács Szitkay, Dániel Oross and Alexandra Kiss

Testing Staff Roles in the Danish Parliament

Stijn van Voorst

Decolonising Deliberation: Citizens’ Assemblies as a Claimed Space for Forging Bottom‐Up Democracy in Lebanon and Tunisia

Mariam Daher, Sonia Chabane, Muzna Al-Masri and Ala'a Shehabi

Deliberative Policy (Sub)System: Institutionalising Deliberative Mini‐Publics Within the Policy Process

Nemanja Anđelković and Tara Tepavac

Creativity or Institutionalization? Beyond the Dualism in Democratic Innovation

Paola Pierri

The Legal Institutionalisation of Public Deliberation and the Embeddedness in the Democratic System: The Italian Case

Stefania Ravazzi

Solo, Group, or Team Effort? Work Dynamics of Parliamentary Offices for Parliamentarians' Political Communications

Sebastian Ludwicki-Ziegler

Institutionalization of Participatory Democratic Innovations: Understanding the Roles of Established and Emerging Actors

Gazela Pudar Drasko and Irena Fiket

Does Federalism Facilitate Permanent Minipublics?

Francesco Veri and Nenad Stojanović

Still Out of Touch? Parties and Their Voters on the EU Dimension

Mikko Mattila and Tapio Raunio

Political Ideology, Policy Attitudes, and Public Support for European Integration

Dimiter Toshkov

Large‐Scale Crises and Variation in Social Democratic Europeanism: The Italian Democratic Party

Andrea Capati and Federico Trastulli

Mapping Euroscepticism Across Occupational Classes: Economic and Cultural Capital in Comparative Perspective

Valentina Petrović

Geopolitical Crises and Consensus in the European Parliament: Initial Response to the War in Ukraine

Levan Kakhishvili and Alina Jasmin Felder-Stindt

Deconstructing Polish Euro‐Enthusiasm: The Illusory Incongruence of Party Narratives With Public Opinion

Maria Wincławska and Anna Pacześniak

Rhetorical Consensus About the EU? Comparing Established and New Parties in Europe

Bettina Mitru and Paul Tap

Low Education, Low Impact? The Effects of Voting Advice Applications on an Underexposed Segment of Users

L. Constantin Wurthmann, Daniel C. Hagemann and Stefan Marschall

Multidimensional Representation in the EU Multilevel Polity: The Role of Congruence in Vote‐Switching

Roula Nezi and Zoe Lefkofridi

Isomorphic Spillover and Its Limits: The Institutionally Constrained Defence Industrial Policy of the European Union

Salih Işık Bora

Citizens’ Trust in the European Union During Crisis and Conflicts Across 10 Countries

Norbert Kersting, Lukas Schütte, Michele Scotto di Vettimo, Sven Lange, Jack Thompson, Francesco Ruggeri, Roberta di Stefano, Roan Buma, Vladimir Cristea, Lorenza Antonucci, André Krouwel, Carlo D’Ippoliti and Alberto López Ortega

In the Pursuit of Democracy: Support for Referendums in Moldova

Sergiu Gherghina

Enhancing Voting Advice Applications: Politicians’ Perspectives on Additional Contextual Information and AI Integration

Elke van Veggel, Naomi Kamoen and Christine Liebrecht

Picking Sectors: IPCEIs and Europe’s Emerging State Capacity for Strategic Identification

Timo Seidl and Tobias Wuttke

Social Mobilization and Political Competition in Paraguay’s Pensión Alimentaria: Social Policy Expansion Through Rivalry

Ana Badillo

Contested Visions for Social Protection in Kenya: The Older Persons Cash Transfer and the Social Registry

Kate O'Donnell

Party Competition and Voter Attitudes in German Border Regions: Evidence From Local VAAs

Daniela Braun, Elisa Deiss-Helbig, Theresa Gessler, Jochen Müller, Julia Wagner and Georg Wenzelburger

In Pursuit of Informed Voters: Three Experimental Studies on Enhanced Voting Advice Applications

Naomi Kamoen, Christine Liebrecht and Rieke van Lieshout

Voting Advice Application Use Increases Party Position Knowledge: An Experimental Study Among Belgian Youngsters

Joke Matthieu, Laura Jacobs, Matthias Van Campenhout and Stefaan Walgrave

Voting Advice Applications and Their Impact on Ideological and Affective Polarization

Maxime Walder, Jan Fivaz and Daniel Schwarz

Citizens’ Claims‐Making and Navigating the Politics of Accountability in Social Cash Transfers in Uganda

Ahmed El Assal

Anti‐Poverty Legislation for Particularly Vulnerable Groups: The Example of Indigenous People and Minorities

Markus Kaltenborn and Jasmin Dogu

The Politics of Technological Choice in the EV Transition: Comparing Brazil and Mexico

Renato H. de Gaspi and Pedro Perfeito da Silva

Are Single‐Party Voting Advice Applications Useful? Comparing Voter Preferences in the BSW‐O‐Mat With a Probability Sample

Jan Philipp Thomeczek

The Interacting Politics of Agricultural Input Subsidies and Cash Transfers in Malawi and Zambia

Guido Maschhaupt

Mission Green: Defense, Decarbonization, and the Politics of Transformative Mission‐Oriented Innovation Policy

Carlos Cantafio Apitz, Darius Ornston and Trang Thu Nguyen

Persistence in the Face of Deficiencies: External Interests and Centralised Decision‐Making in Cambodia’s IDPoor

Emma Lynn Dadap-Cantal

Pro‐Poor Populism or Financialized Governance? The Politics of PMJDY and PMMY in India

Pınar Kahya

Estimating the Recommendation Certainty in Candidate‐Based Voting Advice Applications

Fynn Bachmann, Daan van der Weijden, Cristina Sarasua and Abraham Bernstein

InvestEU: Neoliberal Lineages and Contradictions in the New EU Industrial Policy

Angela Wigger and Scott Lavery

Measuring Issue Congruence in Western Europe: How Voting Advice Applications Compare to Expert‐ and Manifesto‐Based Estimates

Mattia Gatti

Sacrifice Zones: How Europe’s Electric Vehicle Transition Is Entangled With Coercive Zoning on Its Semi‐Periphery

Pálma Polyák

What’s Net‐Zero? Strategic Green Technology Identification in the European Net‐Zero Industry Act

Jane Arroyo

Televised Influence: Examining Opinion Formation Through Live Completion of a Voting Advice Application

Nikandros Ioannidis and Vasiliki Triga

Exploring Their Options? Tracking How Voters Actually Use Voting Advice Applications

Andreas Videbæk Jensen, Veikko Isotalo and Mathias Wessel Tromborg

Pro‐Poor Governance: Evidence on Incentivizing Policy Implementation in Brazil

Jonathan Phillips

(Re)Framing Coherence: A Relational Analysis of Social Protection Systems in South Africa and Uganda

Irene Among-Lutz

Closer or More Distant? The Congruence Between Elites and Voters on Swiss–EU Relations

Lukas Lauener and Laurent Bernhard

Industrial Policy and Sectoral Coordination: The Collapse of Germany’s Solar Industry

Timur Ergen

How Many People Use Voting Advice Applications? Survey Evidence From 15 Democracies Worldwide

Diego Garzia and Frederico Ferreira da Silva

Undoing Social Policy: The Far Right and the Poor in Argentina

Ana Logiudice and Viviana Patroni

Laggards or Mavericks? Czechia and Hungary’s Divergent Responses to the EU's Changing Industrial Policy Regime

Ivo Iliev and Julia Rone

Geoeconomic Exposure and EU Industrial Policy: Export Dependence Amid US–China Techno‐Nationalist Rivalry

Jaša Veselinovič and Naná de Graaff

A Strong Regulator? The EU’s Uneven Regulatory Capacity in Green Industrial Policy

Fabio Bulfone, Joan Miró and Manuela Moschella

Fiscal Capacity Revisited: Technopolitical Coalitions and Off‐Balance‐Sheet Instruments in Europe’s Green Industrial Policy

Vanessa Endrejat

A “Common” European Interest? Explaining Variation in IPCEI State Aid Between EU Member States

Ruben De La Cruz

Das Auto and the Second China Shock: Industrial Policy and the Disruption of Technological Incumbency

Cornel Ban and Vera Scepanovic

What Electoral Outcomes Foster Electoral Consent and Dissent?

André Blais, Damien Bol and Carolina Plescia

Governing Poverty in Times of Change: National Programs, Inequality, and Local Reality in Chile

Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela and Miguel Ángel Pablo Cortés Morales

Mirages of External Finance in Social Protection: the Politics of Aid Viewed Through the Monetary Transfer Dilemma

Andrew M. Fischer

Understanding the Role of Political Staff and Parliamentary Administrations

Gijs Jan Brandsma and Anna-Lena Högenauer

Following the Leader Against Democracy? Evidence From the 2022 Brazilian Presidential Election

Fernando Mello and Ignacio Jurado

Electoral Race Card: Voter Fraud, Racial Affective Polarization, and White American Election Confidence

Joseph A. Coll, Rachel S. Torres and Taylor Tokos

Is Bad Always Stronger Than Good? Culture and Negativity Biases in Generalized Trust

Baowen Liang

Comparative Perspectives on Electoral Integrity Beliefs: A Case Study of Austria and Germany

Maike Bernhard-Rump

Narrating Crisis, Imagining Solidarity: The Narrative Politics of Migration

Francesca Pusterla Piccin

Partisanship and the Gender Gap in Perceptions of Election Integrity: Gender Accentuates the Winner–Loser Gap

Samantha J. DeRagon and Caroline Tolbert

The International Promotion of the National Language in France and Japan

Natsuko D'Aprile

Social Sciences and Humanities’ Employability Culture and Public Policy Challenges: International and Greek Contexts

Stylianos Ioannis Tzagkarakis, Nikos Papadakis and Vasiliki Petousi

Digital Resilience of Cosmopolitanism: TikTok Refugees’ Platform Migration and Communication Practice With RedNote Natives

Gaohong Jing and Xueting Zhang

How Research–Practice Partnerships Can Strengthen Experiments Designed to Build Trust in American Elections

Cheryl Boudreau, Jennifer Gaudette, Thad Kousser, Seth J. Hill, Mackenzie Lockhart and Laura Uribe

How Adolescents Evaluate Political Institutions and Develop Political Trust: A Cross‐National Study

Linde Stals

Prefigurative Democracy and Cultural Co‐Production

Roberto Farneti

Youth Political Culture in the European Union: Welfare Institutions, Political Trust, and Participation

Anna Broka

Gender Equality as Foundational to Democracy: Theory and Evidence of Gendered Political Culture(s)

Zoe Lefkofridi, Vera Beloshitzkaya, Julia Gorny and Larissa Lotter

What Drives Boycotts? Exploring Motivational Frames in Digital Activism

Sumeyye Kaya Uyar, Yunus Yeşil and Mustafa Yıldırım

County Election Administration Promotes Voter Confidence in US Elections for Election Losers

Michael J. Ritter

The Underlying Structure of Political Support

Jan Menzner and David Schweizer

Democratic Confidence From Abroad: Evidence From the Mexican Diaspora in the United States

Xavier Medina Vidal and Antonio Ugues

Ballots and Beliefs: Diverging Views on Election Integrity From the Public and Officials

Anita Manion, David C. Kimball, Paul Manson, Paul Gronke and Joseph Anthony

When Populists Win but Are Excluded From Power: Explaining Post‐Electoral Dynamics of Democratic Satisfaction

Julia Partheymüller and Sylvia Kritzinger

Protean Memorialisation: International Holocaust Remembrance Day as a Digital Site of Memory on Twitter

Vihang Jumle and Mykola Makhortykh

Towards an Innovative Democracy: Institutionalizing Participation in Challenging Times

Irena Fiket, Gazela Pudar Drasko and Giovanni Allegretti

Consensus About the European Union? Understanding the Views of Citizens and Political Parties

Sergiu Mișcoiu and Sergiu Gherghina

Voting Advice Applications: Methodological Innovations, Behavioural Effects, and Research Perspectives

Diego Garzia, Stefan Marschall, Mathias Wessel Tromborg and Andreas Albertsen

Doing Industrial Policy in a Geo‐Tech World

Salih Işık Bora, Fabio Bulfone and Timo Seidl

Beyond Apathy: Representative Performance as a Driver of the Age Gap in Voter Turnout

Ayauzhan Kamatayeva and Edurne Bartolome Peral