The Political Ideas Underpinning Political Distrust: Analysing Four Types of Anti-politics

Distrust and Political Turnover∗

We present findings that document one way in which a society’s culture can affect political outcomes. Examining an annual panel of democratic countries over six decades, we show that severe economic downturns are more likely to cause political turnover in countries that have lower levels of generalized trust. We find no such relationship in non-democratic countries or on irregular leader turnov...

Distrust and Political Turnover∗ (Incomplete)

We present findings that document one way in which a society’s culture can affect political outcomes. Examining an annual panel of democratic countries over six decades, we show that severe economic downturns are more likely to cause political turnover in countries that have lower levels of generalized trust. We find no such relationship in non-democratic countries or on irregular leader turnov...

Plato's Political Ideas

The Idea of Politics in “political” Rhetoric

Th e author claims that analyses of “political discourse” or “political rhetoric” should be grounded in what it is that participants try to do politically with language. Words, actions, and events work together; words interpret events or actions, as well as constitute political facts, while actions in various ways help words gain their political effi cacy. Analyses of political rhetoric (or dis...

analysing the concept of political freedom

the precise understanding of the concept of political freedom and its kinds without a special attention to its elements and principles is impossible. therefore, in this article after, analysing the elements and principles of political freedom, the author has tried to introduce a brief analysis of this concept. his analytical approach is based on mac callum's. accordingly, political freedom...