White Americans’ racial identity can predict their sociopolitical attitudes and behaviors, demonstrating an emergent trend of politics. However, when it comes to predicting support for political candidates, remains unclarified question whether the effects politics are determined more by candidates’ ideology or race. This article disentangles compares role Four studies using American samples con...

The writer José Musso (1785-1838) is very little known today, but he was a figure of enormous activity in the cultural plots that were woven with political during twenties and thirties nineteenth century, particularly turbulent time our history. After trauma War Independence, Lorca author fully entered politics literature Liberal Triennium established relationship large part predominant charact...

Abstract Bruce Smith (1851–1937) was the most prominent Australian exponent of classical or ‘old’ liberalism in late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Although his political career not particularly successful, he notable as foremost defender individualism authentic liberal creed, exemplified by 1887 work Liberty . He consistently attacked new liberalism, with its acceptance extensive stat...

A regularity in the U.S. American politics is that liberals have more policy consensus than do conservatives, and both ideological groups moderates. One explanation for this conservatives’ local conformity paradoxically results less at national level. If so, then liberal effect should also be observed other countries. We test using data from Europe. In European Social Survey (country N = 38, pa...

This article explores the interplay of political enthusiasm as a form of fandom and the creation and disappearance of trust as a result of the evolving relationship between fans and their objects of fandom. Drawing on semistructured interviews with supporters of Barack Obama and the UK Liberal Democrats, the article illustrates how the bond between fans and their political fan object is built i...

This article analyses BBC News Online’s reporting of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela, using a sample from a broader selection of 304 articles published on BBC News Online between 1998 and 2008. Against the BBC’s stated commitment to professional values, we find that the BBC’s organizational culture is underpinned by a liberal nationalist worldview, which limits its interpretive capacitie...

Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Covers new empirical terrain in the study of depoliticisation, with an in-depth case study of health technology regulation;Analyses depoliticisation from a novel analytical perspective, examining how depoliticised institutions are resilient to external pressure for politicisation;Posits a distinctive framework for analysing resilience, drawing on c...

Weblogs are now a key part of online culture, and social scientists are interested in characterising the networks formed by bloggers and measuring their extent and impact in areas such as politics. However, researchers wishing to conduct quantitative social science analysis of the blogging phenomenon are faced with the challenge of using new methods of data collection and analysis largely deriv...

Drawing on literature from Anthropology, Economics, Political Science and Sociology, an interdisciplinary theory is presented that links the rise of contractual forms of exchange within a society with the proliferation of liberal values, democratic legitimacy, and peace among democratic nations. The theory accommodates old facts and yields a large number of new and testable ones, including the ...