When voters fear that politicians may have a right-wing bias or that they may be influenced or corrupted by the rich elite, signals of true left-wing conviction are valuable. As a consequence, even a moderate politician seeking reelection chooses “populist’ policies i.e., policies to the left of the median voter as a way of signaling that he is not from the right. Truly right-wing politicians r...

Examining data from the World Value Survey about left-right political orientation, paper explores extremism among common people worldwide. Our analysis reveals (i) a positive correlation between left-wing and right-wing across countries, (ii) an average rise in globally last decade, (iii) greater less developed (iv) surge, during for countries where development has not met expectations. Besides...

The goal of this investigation is to study the effect of wing sweep angle on the horizontal wing-body- tail configurations in subsonic flow. For this purpose, a series of wind tunnel tests were conducted on a model having a moveable horizontal tail and a wing planform with different sweep angles. Tests were performed at different tail deflection angles. Static surface pressure distribution over...

Abstract In the context of increasing concerns about false and deceptive information in public opinion, this research note explores which causes sources news users associate with dissemination misinformation. Based on representative survey data collected Netherlands (N = 1,994), we found that distinguish unintentional related to uncertain evidence lacking expert knowledge from politically or fi...

Recent research has showed that people with right-wing political orientations and extremists are more likely to harbor conspiracy beliefs. Utilizing a multisite data set (23 countries, N > 20,000), we show corruption moderates how orientation predicts We found (1) the difference between left- right-wingers in terms of adopting mind-set is attenuated countries high corruption; (2) left-winger...

Abstract How are parties' ideological positions and levels of populism connected? Existing research either advocates for a U‐shaped relationship between left‐right position their degree or uses specific dimensions two‐dimensional policy space to describe right‐wing populist parties. We provide an integrated perspective by arguing that is higher when parties put strong emphasis on collectivist h...