Two research questions structure this article: 1) what climate change policies have been formulated by Danish municipalities? and 2) why is there such a huge variation in the scope and ambition of these policies? In answering the first question it is demonstrated that climate change action plans have been developed and integrated into many Danish local governments' plans as a result of climate ...

Is government ideology important for fiscal policy? I study this question with data from all German States over the period 1975-2005. To identify the effect of ideology, I rely on a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I find that left-wing state governments spend more than state governments with right-wing and mixed ideology. Deficits of left-wing governments are larger than those of right-w...

The transformation of politics in contemporary democracies has led to the emergence a new ideological conflict, alongside traditional left-right scheme, described as liberal–authoritarian or cosmopolitan–nationalist cleavage (Norris and Inglehart 2018; Kriesi 2008; 2012; Hooge Marks 2009; 2018). This brought redefinition linkages between issue voting preferences, many voters decide support part...

This study is an extension of the work of Furnham and Briggs (1993). It examined the choice strategies non-medical people employ when asked to rank-order a waiting list of patients suffering from kidney failure. Participants were given minimum demographic data about 16 hypothetical patients, and were asked to rank them in order of priority for treatment. Patients differed in sex, income, voting...

As a representative figure of contemporary left-wing and post-Marxism, Rancière answers the question how innovation is possible from perspective aesthetic politics. In his view, only when reformationary “undivided division” takes equality as prerequisite, thus breaking division sensible space by capitalist security order achieving “sensible redistribution.” Although Rancière’s view on recognize...

Abstract This article explores the gender dimension of ideology and representation by analysing political parties that ran in 2019 Polish parliamentary elections, using a novel analytical framework based on claims gender-related policy pledges. demonstrates left liberal largely determines feminist pro-LGBTQ+ promissory representation. However, ideologies right-wing vary their traditional types ...

This article delves into the transformative decade between 1999 and 2009, exploring intricate web of Jewish-Arab relations in Israel consequential impact tensions on Arab politics voter behavior Israeli elections. During this decade, internal factors, such as generational shift, leadership changes, political pluralism, played a pivotal role reshaping societal landscape sector. On other hand, ex...

Is political radicalization a product of increased issue position polarization, by which left and right-wing attitudes become ever more extreme? We argue that this is not the best explanation. Indeed, radical right supporters are so much “left” or “right” in terms their ideological attitudes. Instead, we cynicism relevant attitude, with radicals being characterized distinctly high levels, makin...

Cornelia Möser – Jennifer Ramme Judit Takács (szerk.) (2022) Paradoxical Right-Wing Sexual Politics in EuropePalgrave Macmillan, Cham