The Unfulfilled Electoral Potential of West European Liberal Parties

by Davenport, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9780198978817
• ISBN10: 0198978812
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780198978824
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2026-02-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Alexander Davenport, Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences

Alexander Davenport is a postdoctoral researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He received his PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence in September 2023 and his research focuses on elections, voter behaviour, and political attitudes.
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Liberal parties and market cosmopolitan voters2. From disadvantage to advantage?: Liberal parties in a changing political context3. Supply and demand in the market cosmopolitan space4. Uniting supply and demand: Do market cosmopolitans vote less spatially?5. The worst of both worlds?: Exploring social liberals' non-ideological disadvantages6. Set in their ways: explaining market cosmopolitans' electoral behaviour7. The dogs that did bark: The welfare nationalist quadrant8. A different story: Market cosmopolitans in Central and Eastern Europe9. Conclusion: Unfulfilled potential, but potential neverthelessAppendix