Some political economists explain the apparent downplaying of importance economic issues in events such as Brexit with reference to growing anger or despair people on low incomes feel about economy. This ‘everyday economy’ article draws an ethnographic study conducted between 2016 and 2018 residents English city explore what think phenomenon It reveals significant differences how interested hig...

We extend the basic model of spatial competition in two directions. First, political parties and voters do not have complete information but behave adaptively. Political parties use polls to search for policy platforms that maximize the probability of winning an election and the voting decision of voters is influenced by social interaction. Second, we allow for the emergence of interest groups....

Populist appeals to ‘pure people’ have been theorised mobilise previously disengaged citizens. However, this ‘corrective consequence’ has found weak support in empirical research. This finding is consistent with studies that suggest novel campaign and new political offerings a negligible effect on turnout. As consequence, research proposes distinction between the behavioural attitudinal effects...

Progressive tax rates are one of the main instruments for redistribution within advanced liberal democracies. In this study, we investigate public support policy. our analysis a novel question included in Belgian Electoral Study (2019) show that left-wing citizens strongly favour system. Importantly, high levels political sophistication strengthen association between ideology and preferences pr...