An increasing concern in European politics is the potential tension between immigration and inclusive welfare states, suggesting that policy actors must choose one or other. This known as ‘the progressive dilemma’, which Scandinavia becomes social democratic dilemma. article analyses how Scandinavian parties frame policies to diffuse dilemma their party programs. Building on a review of sociolo...

Introduction The theoretical crisis facing Marxism, and the political crisis gripping the socialist movement internationally, is clearly grave. In marked contrast to the past few decades, where to be progressive was to be socialist and to be intellectual was to be left, we are entering a decade where socialism is in retreat and leftists are on the defensive. Indeed, some have concluded that to ...

One of the main problems of agriculture in most countries is how to ensure further increases in agricultural production to give the population better nutrition and to guarantee increasing social security to farmers and all those employed in agriculture. This occupies the farmers' minds, for it concerns their own vital interests and their position in society; at the same time it is a concern of ...

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) led the corporate attack on labor organization and government regulation in the early twentieth century. Yet NAM’s deep distrust of coordination, in fact, developed years into its organizational life: at its inception, NAM organizers sought mechanisms to coordinate economic and political business activity, and held policy positions that resembled ...

Despite comprehensive reform (Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act) and recent review (Phillips Review in 2007) of party finance in Britain, public opinion of party finance remains plagued by perceptions of corruption, undue influence from wealthy donors, carefree and wasteful spending and, more generally, from the perception that there is just ‘too much money’ in politics. In this ...

odels of bilateral contracting, such as the canonical holdup model, typically assume that third parties are not available. Given this assumption, the equilibrium outcome is not first-best efficient if contracts can be renegotiated. To be more specific, suppose an architect and a builder must cooperate to build a building. The quality of the building will depend on three things: the quality of t...

At the close of the nineteenth and the commencement of the twentieth century, socialism began to gain momentum as a large-scale movement in Europe and the United States. This popularity was supported by an increased influence of the working class in society, which put pressure for representation upon European parliaments and began to secure concrete improvements in labor protection laws. Moreov...

The main aim of the paper is to identify success rate in time and space political parties with a more conservative electorate those liberal voters Slovakia based on results parliamentary elections last twenty years conduct subsequent correlation analysis selected socioeconomic parameters (urbanisation rate, registered unemployment share persons over 65 age, religious faith university-educated p...

The article examines the role of European left parties in politics their countries and Union. author main types parties, program goals electorate. Modern left-wing terms ideological orientation are mostly representatives social democrats, Greens, democratic socialists communists, which roughly corresponds to party coalitions existing Parliament, with exception communists Marxist-Leninist type p...