Abstract The article is a critical investigation of the role played by Palermo left-wing newspaper L'Ora in uncovering Sicilian Mafia's urban affairs and property speculation during sack 1960s. It pays particular attention to 's complex narrative concerning Mafia many obstacles that encountered its attempt defend city. aims explain account as an intersection violent crime, politics business. Th...

Contemporary left-wing feminist and queer politics finds itself in a double-bind between on the one hand neoliberal corporate embracement of gender equality sexual diversity, (neo)conservative anti-gender mobilization other. In discourse, is commonly seen to be backed up disseminated by global corporations. Thus, time when nationalist ultra-conservative movements are increasingly challenging he...

The 2015-2019 left-wing government alliance in Portugal merits attention for several reasons, of which four stand out. First, because, if it worked well, may offer a solution to the crisis affecting social-democratic parties by pushing them back left. Second, because radical left greater influence. Third, existing studies offering comprehensive overviews Portuguese case tend be descriptive natu...

Twitter has pushed public opinion on foreign policy into partisan bubbles that often value alternative media sources over traditional or political elites. Public China is no exception. On the left, some outlets support as a socialist ideal, while others criticize it key player in global capitalism and neoliberal order. This leads to an important puzzle: How why do transnational left disseminate...

As the media environment has fragmented over recent decades, scholars have paid increasing attention to rise of alternative news and their relationship with mainstream media. This study enters into debates about role character by examining recently launched left-wing sites in UK, which explicitly define themselves opposition It carries out a large content analysis two – The Canary Evolve Politi...

Abstract Based on a reconstruction of the development Rudolf Carnap’s views from Aufbau until 1960s, this paper provides an account philosopher’s understanding non-cognitivism, which is here seen as in line with so-called scientific world-conception left-wing logical empiricism. The starting point conception claim that every human decision depends certain attitudes cannot be justified at cognit...

Existing literature on the centre-right in Eastern and Central Europe is small and fragmentary. This contrasts with the voluminous, detailed and often sophisticated comparative literatures on the left and the far right in the region. This article reviews and synthesises the existing literature and to suggests the outline of a definition of the right and centre-right in the region, which can bot...

To explain women's underrepresentation in politics, supply-side factors receive much empirical support, emphasizing the low numbers of women on ballot. Whether demand from voters also contributes to problem is less clear, however, as both observational and experimental research shows that average are not likely vote for candidates. We argue actually do play a role, although all an equal extent....