Today in Europe we are witnessing a populist turn, could even speak of “populist moment” that signals the crisis neoliberal democracy. According to Chantal Mouffe, “the is expression set heterogeneous demands, which cannot be formulated traditional right/left frontier. The battles our time will between right-wing and left-wing populism. Although current state liberal societies appears favor dev...

Abstract Societally salient issues, like migration, stimulate user engagement with political parties on social media. This engagement, in turn, is associated behavior, such as voting. Nonetheless, few studies so far have investigated the interaction between these factors. We examine how anti-immigration attitudes are In this study, understood following Through online data that were collected Oc...

Abstract How are parties' ideological positions and levels of populism connected? Existing research either advocates for a U‐shaped relationship between left‐right position their degree or uses specific dimensions two‐dimensional policy space to describe right‐wing populist parties. We provide an integrated perspective by arguing that is higher when parties put strong emphasis on collectivist h...

The article examines the role of European left parties in politics their countries and Union. author main types parties, program goals electorate. Modern left-wing terms ideological orientation are mostly representatives social democrats, Greens, democratic socialists communists, which roughly corresponds to party coalitions existing Parliament, with exception communists Marxist-Leninist type p...

When voters fear that politicians may have a right-wing bias or that they may be in‡uenced or corrupted by the rich elite, signals of true left-wing conviction are valuable. As a consequence, even a moderate politician seeking reelection chooses ‘populist’policies— i.e., policies to the left of the median voter— as a way of signaling that he is not from the right. Truly right-wing politicians r...

This article examines whether the American cultural phenomena of the practice of Buddhism or the Buddhism-derived technique of mindfulness are likely to be helpful to the political left. It summarizes the central teachings of the ancient Buddhist texts, with particular focus on the issues of mindfulness and politics. It also reviews the political history of Buddhist countries. The author argues...

This article analyzes how politics influences Latin American and Caribbean income inequality. Most studies view the distributional process in two phases with inequality shaped first by markets and then by state redistribution. Typically, cross-national analyses of inequality limit the influence of politics to the redistributive phase. But we argue that a full understanding of how government aff...

The goal of this investigation is to study the effect of wing sweep angle on the horizontal wing-body- tail configurations in subsonic flow. For this purpose, a series of wind tunnel tests were conducted on a model having a moveable horizontal tail and a wing planform with different sweep angles. Tests were performed at different tail deflection angles. Static surface pressure distribution over...

THE creed of science as value-neutral, and our experience of medicine's capacity to be perverted into a demoralizing "discourse of power", together strengthen our wish that psychiatry should be free of politics, as from Szasz to Solzhenitsyn, we confront the evils of conditioning and the disabling of dissidents as disturbed and insane.' But four hundred years ago, official dogma, the Elizabetha...