a commonly desired ultimate foundation or ground is full unity, community, or consensus, which is often, if not typically, figured as lost or perhaps lacking, usually because of the intrusive presence of others seen as outsiders or polluters of the city or the body politic. One may, however, insist that such unity, community, or consensus is absent and that the sociopolitical problem is how to ...

We extend the ‘citizen candidate’ model of party formation to allow for aggregate uncertainty over the distribution of preferences. We discuss and characterize the equilibrium set in this framework and show that two-party equilibria have ‘extremist’ parties, i.e. the party winning under a left-wing (right-wing) distribution is to the left (right) of the median of that distribution.

Abstract This article examines the impact of populism on environmental politics, focusing countries’ outcome-level performance. I develop argument that populist leadership likely undermines quality. First, leaders tend to reject and refrain from implementing “green” policies, as these are usually promoted by “corrupt elites.” Second, erodes democratic institutions, thus offsetting a series mech...

Abstract Why is taxing the rich so difficult despite rising inequality and public support for progressive taxation? Recent research has mostly focused on ‘demand side’ of electoral tax politics, showing that economic crises can increase demands taxation in contemporary societies. Complementing this research, we focus political ‘supply side’, investigating conditions under which social democrati...

Abstract Though meat-consumption is known to be a key factor in environmental damage, veganism and vegetarianism are still perceived left-wing-phenomena, ironically not penetrating those who hold ideologies of conservation. Logical contradictions historical counter-examples cast doubt on substantive connection between political orientation meat-eating. Instead, common psychological factors may ...

The Danish Social Democrats have been through a lengthy period of ideological change and transformation, whose effects become particularly manifest in recent times. This chapter argues that these developments are to be seen the light particular political context developments, already prefigured at dawn century. Notably, populist anti-immigration right Denmark which quickly made use opportunitie...

Abstract Using the critique of instrumental rationality, based on Weber, Habermas and Arendt, we analyze, through interviews leaders involved in creation Central Bank Brazil (BCB), tension between politics technique its formation as a bureaucracy. This oral history research was conducted by CPDOC/FGV, published 2019, 25 volumes "Told History Collection," with who participated BCB. As result, id...

Misrecognition, taken seriously as unjust social subordination, cannot be remedied by eliminating prejudice alone. In this rejoinder to Richard Rorty, it is argued that a politics of recognition and a politics of redistribution can and should be combined. However, an identity politics that displaces redistribution and rei® es group differences is deeply āwed. Here, instead, an alternative ’stat...