EU rules help strengthen requirements relating to financing and transparency for European political parties and foundations and limit the risk of foreign interference. On this page What are European ...

Federal political parties are in the process of exempting themselves, retroactively, from a law that would require them to be governed by the same privacy principles as other organizations. Their ...

Although experts generally agree that populist political leaders or parties display high levels of anti-elitism, definitions of populism vary. We use three measures to classify populist parties: ...

The dominance of Labour and the Conservatives is being eroded by multi-party politics. The recent Gorton and Denton byelection clearly showed that the Green Party and Reform UK are emerging as serious ...

One paradox of American politics is that voters are both extremely polarized about politics and extremely disdainful of political parties. A record share, 43 percent, self-identify as political ...

Mr. Jäger is a contributing Opinion writer and the author of the forthcoming “Hyperpolitics.” He wrote from Brussels. It is a familiar conundrum by now. Yet in the opening weeks of 2026 — as President ...

The collapse of traditional party systems is a familiar crisis across many contemporary democracies. Italian political scientist Piero Ignazi, writing in “The Crisis of Parties and the Rise of New ...