Parties involved in disputes often lack the information they need to take rational decisions. As a consequence, they frequently enter into agreements that are not as advantageous as they could be. Having the right information in the right time would guide parties into taking more weighted and realistic decisions. Specifically, parties should consider their best, worst and most likely outcomes i...

In this paper I test whether parties matter for fiscal policy choices, i.e., government spending and level of taxes. It is part of conventional wisdom that the Left spends and taxes more than the Right. However, there are very few convincing empirical studies that show this to be the case. I argue that this might reflect either the data sets used, or the employed methodology. By using a very la...

he international community has made great strides in developing a coherent body of international human rights law principles. Far less attention, however, has been focused on the extent to which such principles have been implemented within countries and the processes involved in their implementation. This is particularly evident in relation to economic, social, and cultural rights, not least wi...

In the last years a new right-wing, populist and eurosceptic party emerged in Germany, the Alternative für Deutschland. Topics that were used by the party to draw attention to their program included the Euro-crisis and the so-called ‘refugee crisis’. We investigate some aspects of social media use of the AfD. Our goal is to relate the rise of this party to some quantitative measures of their so...

Abstract Despite extensive research on the ‘politics matter’ hypothesis, findings achieved so far remain ambiguous. Inspired by that this focuses electoral promises, a chief but as yet untested indicator. It examines whether government party colour explains adoption of an ideologically committed policy agenda in manifestos. To answer goal looks at left–right placement manifesto pledges Portugue...

Contrary to what common sense suggests, the meaning of historical figures and events is not fixed once for ever. Instead, battle over history plays an important role at identity-building political competition level, thus becoming post-structuralist literature refers as ‘a site struggle’. This article intends study such aspects through analysis Rassemblement National its leader, Marine Le Pen. I...

This paper explores the causes of domestic conflict over foreign policy in the context of a dynamic learning model. One state is composed of two political parties that are uncertain about how another state will respond to cooperative and confrontational policies. To resolve this uncertainty, they must implement policies and update on the basis of the observed outcome. While both parties have in...