We don’t need no education? Education policies of Western European populist radical right parties

Causes and consequences of the rise of populist radical right parties and movements in Europe

This article reviews three strands in the scholarship on the populist radical right (PRR). It covers both political parties and extra-parliamentary mobilization in contemporary European democracies. After definitional issues and case selection, the authors first discuss demand-side approaches to the fortunes of the PRR. Subsequently, supply-side approaches are assessed, namely political opportu...

Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties

This article examines the relationship between Christian religiosity and the support for radical right parties in Western Europe. Drawing on theories of electoral choice and on sociopsychological literature largely ignored by scholars of electoral behaviour, it suggests and tests a number of competing hypotheses. The findings demonstrate that while religiosity has few direct effects, and while ...

A West European Style Populist Radical Right Movement in America? The Case of the Tea Party

The Tea Party (TP), whose candidates made significant gains in the 2010-midterm elections, lacks a place in the comparative party literature and also defies ready classification. Is it solely a movement to reduce the size of government and cut taxes as its name – some refer to it as the Taxed Enough Already party – implies? Or do its supporters share a broader set of conservative positions on s...

Urological education: Do we need a rethink?

Why we need Reconfigurable Computing Education

Reconfigurable Computing, the second RAM-based machine paradigm offers drastic reduction of the electric energy budget and speedup factors by several orders of magnitude compared to using the von Neumann paradigm, now loosing its dominance. This paper advocates to introduce a dual paradigm transdisciplinary education by using Configware Engineering as the counterpart of Software Engineering. by...