PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS
A JOURNAL OF REPRESENTATIVE POLITICS
EDITORS: Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira (University of Leeds) and Professor Jonathan Tonge (University of Liverpool)
Volume 74 Number 3 July 2021
C O N T E N T S
S p e c i a l C o l l e c t i o n 1 : T h e “V o t e s - a t - 1 6 ” D e b a t e i n t h e U K Editors: Jonathan Tonge, Andrew Mycock and Thomas Loughran
503 Introduction: The ‘Votes-at-16’ Debate in the UK Jonathan Tonge, Thomas Loughran and Andrew Mycock
507 Lowering the Voting Age to 16 in Practice: Processes and Outcomes Compared Jan Eichhorn and Johannes Bergh
522 Voting Age Reform, Political Partisanship and Multi-Level Governance in the UK: The Party Politics of ‘Votes-at-16’
Jonathan Tonge, Thomas Loughran and Andrew Mycock
542 Public Support for Votes at 16 in the UK: The Effects of Framing on Rights and Policy Change
Joe Greenwood-Hau and Raynee S. Gutting
563 How Young People in Scotland Experience the Right to Vote at 16: Evidence on ‘Votes-at-16’ in Scotland from Qualitative Work with Young People
Christine Huebner
581 Missing an Opportunity? The Limited Civic Imagination of Votes at 16 Benjamin Bowman
A r t i c l e s
597 How Do Coronavirus Attitudes Fit into Britain’s Ideological Landscape? Jonathan Mellon, Jack Bailey and Christopher Prosser
617 Divided Culture and Constitutional Tensions: Brexit and the Collision of Direct and Representative Democracy
Andrew Blick and Brian Salter
639 Gender Politics and Legislative Networks in Taiwan: An Analysis of Women-Bill Co-Sponsorship and Bill Success
Jaemin Shim
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S p e c i a l C o l l e c t i o n 2 : O p p o s i t i o n P a r t i e s i n P a r l i a m e n t : C h a l l e n g e s , S t r a t e g i e s , B e h a v i o u r s
Editors: Elisabetta De Giorgi and Gabriella Ilonszki
662 New Challenger Parties in Opposition: Isolation or Cooperation? Elisabetta De Giorgi, Antonio Dias and Branislav Dolny´
683 Parliamentary Representation in Six European Right-Wing Sovereignist Parties: Resemblance or Innovation?
Rossella Borri and Luca Verzichelli
704 Do Anti-Elitist Parties Use Their Parliamentary Tools Differently? Simon Otjes and Tom Louwerse
722 Can Opposition Parties Be Responsible?
Gabriella Ilonszki, Francesco Marangoni and Anna M. Palau
741 The Polarization of Legislative Party Votes: Comparative Illustrations from Denmark and Portugal
Flemming Juul Christiansen
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