Abstract As soon as the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was formed in 1953, disgruntled white settler politicians new polity pushed for reconfiguration its borders. Driven by decolonisation struggles across Africa a surge anti-colonial nationalism particular, these debates were particularly vibrant among political establishment Southern Rhodesia, Federation's dominant constituent. The ques...

The paper presents selected results of the 1996 study of top Polish politicians-members of the 1993-97 Parliament and leaders of those important political parties which failed to get into this Parliament. Presented results pertain to five aspects of politicians' attitudes: (1) opinions on qualities of persons who should be vs. actually are involved in politics, (2) normatively accepted definiti...

This introduction summarizes the main contributions of this special issue titled “Quiet Politics and Power Business: New Perspectives in an Era Noisy Politics.” The four articles use extend Culpepper’s influential concept “quiet politics” according to which business is able shape policies regulations when issues are low salience public politicians. takes analysis further ways that respond rise ...

Abstract Right-wing free speech advocacy is increasingly shaping global politics. In IR, has generally been viewed within human rights and international legal frameworks. However, this article shows that contemporary advocates often ignore or oppose law, focusing instead on (what they describe as) a defence of the nation state against enemies speech. This examines articulation speech's enemies:...

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crime. In this paper we empirically test this hypothesis. We use a previously not used data set which includes all officially recorded right-wing criminal acts in Germany. These data are recorded by the German Federal Crimin...

Populist leaders base their electoral appeal on underlying agenda with claims to authenticity reflected both in the content and style of political communication. Based a conceptualisation as discursive performance, we conduct comparative analysis two right-wing populist leaders, Boris Johnson Donald Trump. We focus associated international politics. International issues are central exclusionary...


 This article investigates the role of music in presidential election campaigns and political movements inspired by theoretical arguments Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis, John Dewey ́s pragmatist rethinking aesthetics existing scholarship on politics music. Specifically, it explores how musical rhythms melodies enable new forms awareness, participation, critique an increasingly polarized B...

Abstract Little is known about whether and under which conditions populist radical right parties’ (PRRPs’) nativist welfare politics matters to the voters. I address this gap in research test argument that electoral appeal of discourse varies among regimes. The study compares conservative social-democratic regimes focuses on vote choices two core constituencies PRRPs – economically exposed immi...

This article presents an attempt to understand the relationship between digital populism and post-truth politics. At first, we will try fuzzy semantic category of populism. Next, examine growth right-wing in Europe its main characteristics. Finally, analyze how current model networked communication, particularly direct anatomy social networks, become a fertile field for dissemination populist r...

The rise of populism on the political right in U.S. and Europe recent decades reflects a significant shift culture. This has been associated with rejection mainstream politics increased hostility toward immigrants, racialized minorities, other marginalized groups who are seen as threats to economic security hegemonic social identities. In Heartland, several key states flipped from Democrat Repu...