Abstract Past research pointed to the idea that right-wing ideology and climate-change skepticism are inherently linked. Empirical reality proves differently however, since populist parties starting adapt pro environmentalist stances. In this paper, we look into two prominent cases of diametrical diverging environmental strategies by right-wing-populist-parties: France’s Rassemblement National ...

The paper aims at investigating the relationship between Trumpism and European far-right parties. combination of shared ideological cores with confrontation similar “enemies” has resulted in creation an unprecedented relationship, wherein Trump takes role “international godfather” inspiration for far right. To examine this relation, focuses on references to Donald his policies statements from 2...

Speed and Mannion make a good case that the rise of populism poses significant challenges for health policy. This commentary suggests that the link between populism and health policy should be further nuanced in four ways. First, a deconstruction of the term populism itself and a focus on the far right dimension of populist politics; second, a focus on the supply side and more specifically the ...

Against the backdrop of international migration and rise right-wing populism, debates on citizenship policies intensified. This article seeks to explain why some Central Eastern European countries adopted more inclusive access nationality rules for non-ethnic immigrants than others. Encompassing period from 1990 2014, analysis focuses four factors: left–right ideological position governments, e...

after world war ii, the people and european governments got disappointed from radical right groups, and their activities were banned. however, during the past decade, we witness the strengthening the social base of the mentioned political parties which are seeking power in different european countries. the reason why these groups have come to power is due to a variety of factors causing importa...

Empirical evidence suggests that most parties in Western Europe do not take centrist policy positions, despite the centripetal force of voter distribution. While scholars focus on reasons for parties’ divergence, this paper focuses electoral failures Left–Right positions. This demonstrates parties, such as British Liberal Democrats and German FDP, suffer from multidimensional disadvantages. Usi...

Abstract The Australian House of Representatives contains far fewer women than men. But is this because parties left and right discriminate against or voters do? Using a new dataset comprising 7271 candidates from 2001 to 2019, firstly, we find that the percentage increasing, but consistently higher for right. Secondly, tend be selected more by both in unsafe seats. Thirdly, all else being equa...