Since old-age programmes mitigate life-course risks that are relevant to individuals across socio-economic groups in ageing societies, all parties have a political incentive support these initiatives. Nevertheless, pre-existing partisan commitments bind the policy instruments use. Cabinet-level analyses of OECD economies demonstrate left incumbency relies more on public expenditure than right-w...

Abstract Does the political ideology of negotiating parties influence design international environmental agreements? This article distinguishes between leftist and rightist executives in democracies to develop a twofold argument. First, left-leaning democratic governments tend be generally more environmental-friendly, which implies that they should favor designs are conducive effective institut...

The second decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a significant ‘rightward drift’ as populists in West scored striking electoral gains. We argue that this reflects shift power cleavages is asymmetric nature. Specifically, voters for whom immigration salient are more likely to switch conservative and national populist parties than liberal or left-wing parties. leverage data from three prom...

Scotland is a leading example of the international institutional turn in feminism since late twentieth century. Feminist activists played role shaping new Scottish Parliament 1980s and 1990s, which has influenced politics devolution 1999. This article appraises this experience using combination feminist texts drawn from across time period as well autobiographies biographies prominent female pol...

Populism is present in the current political scenario a modern way associated with neoliberalism. The objective of this work to associate subjective impacts produced by neoliberal policies on individual, mainly feeling competition and vision as source profit and, no longer exchange, rise right-wing populism last decade response crises capitalist system itself, largely due inefficiency left offe...

In his recent book Left Turn, Tim Groseclose concludes that, in a world without media bias, the average American voter would be positioned at around 25 on a 0–100 scale, where 0 is a right-wing Republican and 100 is a left-wing Democrat. In this world, a balanced media might include some TV networks promoting the view that abortion should be illegal under all circumstances and subject to crimin...


 This article investigates the role of music in presidential election campaigns and political movements inspired by theoretical arguments Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis, John Dewey ́s pragmatist rethinking aesthetics existing scholarship on politics music. Specifically, it explores how musical rhythms melodies enable new forms awareness, participation, critique an increasingly polarized B...