Objective Politics around the world has become more divisive. We ask if influence of far-right parties extends to personal concerns and argue that a theory combining issue ownership with partisan discourse can explain policy salience. Method Using aggregate Eurobarometer data, we create compositional models estimate effect on pocketbook concerns. focus whether these elite messages differently d...

Although the Slovak Republic is not a country of immigrants, since 2015 topic international migration has dominated its political discourse. Due to situation in 2015, politicians have also begun use mobilise their voters. Paradoxically, there are no significant differences among relevant parties on this topic, hence take similar approach issue migration. This article focuses People's Party Our ...

Existing ideational approaches to nativism tend conflate the concept with nationalism, xenophobia and populism, as well overlooking role of racism racialisation in process constructing non-native ‘out-group’, against native ‘in-group’. Inspired by Discourse Theoretical approach this article offers a significant conceptual contribution studies on far right interpreting racist xenophobic discours...

Techniques from corpus linguistics are applied to the analysis of a number of European right-wing parties in an effort to extend methods for ranking parties on a left-right spectrum within and across countries and languages. Focus is placed on parties not in government, and analysis is derived from corpora derived from election manifestos published by those parties. The techniques applied are o...

Abstract This series of three essays explores the stakes and outcomes 2022 French electoral cycle. Written in real time, they call attention to several emerging trends politics, including collapse both traditional political parties left–right divide, dynamics attraction repulsion elicited by Macron’s personality, far right’s ‘arrival’ as a mainstream party, cascading fractures that divide weake...

Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The publishes independently refereed research articles It promotes perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial post-developmental debates special references (Southern) Africa. thereby support scholarly work that examines how humanities twenty-first century ...

In 1987-2001 unemployment and inßation have the opposite inßuences on the popularities of Finnish and Swedish leftist and rightist parties. The popularities of the Finnish right-wing (left-wing) parties decrease (increase) when unemployment and inßation increase but in Sweden the opposite happens although the countries experience simultaneously an economic crisis. Fitting a threshold model in t...