Case Description- A 20-day-old pigeon chick with left wing distal to the carpal joint into left flank presented to our avian medicine and surgery clinic. Clinical Findings-The bird had a mal-shaped wing structure, whereas the axial skeleton, thoracic and pelvic limbs skeleton were normal radiographically and clinically, excluding the left wing. The only clinical sign observed was recumbency. Tr...

This introduction summarizes the main contributions of this special issue titled “Quiet Politics and Power Business: New Perspectives in an Era Noisy Politics.” The four articles use extend Culpepper’s influential concept “quiet politics” according to which business is able shape policies regulations when issues are low salience public politicians. takes analysis further ways that respond rise ...

Through a number of theoretical and empirical contributions, this Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Politics addresses the recent sudden upsurge of right-wing populist parties (RWPs) in Europe and the USA. It responds to many recent challenges and a variety of ‘discursive shifts’ (Krzyżanowski 2013a, 2018 a,b) and wider dynamics of media and public discourses that have taken place as...

Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism? Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people’s far right-wing attitudes and xenophobia. Estimates from three different German data sets show a posit...

The paper presents selected results of the 1996 study of top Polish politicians-members of the 1993-97 Parliament and leaders of those important political parties which failed to get into this Parliament. Presented results pertain to five aspects of politicians' attitudes: (1) opinions on qualities of persons who should be vs. actually are involved in politics, (2) normatively accepted definiti...

This article explores how political parties and individual politicians in Sweden communicate strategically an online environment where the close relationship between news journalistic institutions no longer can be taken for granted. We define adoption adaption of conventions communication as a particular style, conceptualized “parasitic news”. The presents analytical framework that explicates r...

Abstract In this article, we triangulate qualitative data regarding the framing of pandemic and strategic decisions taken by Spain's new populist radical right-wing party, VOX, with a quantitative analysis aggregate polling individual-level survey responses to answer three questions: how has VOX framed politics pandemic? What actions in response COVID-19? Have events COVID-19 crisis affected VO...

The Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil was widely affected by politics and the population’s consumption of information is fundamental to understanding situation. This study aimed at relationship between political-ideological markers, information, preventive practices during pandemic. We conducted an online survey with 1,328 Brazilians who answered a questionnaire about authoritarianism, conservatism, ...

The increasingly popular design technique called ‘personas’ provides a natural way to introduce issues of diversity and power relationships in software development. Persona development is a powerful technique that must be used carefully. It may be the most effective way to introduce participative approaches into mass market software development. This is of broader significance because it is inc...