Abstract Families are not only the first institution ever created, they also, for most people, encountered. The preindustrial family structure, which was a function of local ecology and cooperation needs, instilled members with different values, such as trust in strangers respect elders. These values passed through generations and, we show three studies, impact today's political attitudes polic...

In 1987-2001 unemployment and inßation have the opposite inßuences on the popularities of Finnish and Swedish leftist and rightist parties. The popularities of the Finnish right-wing (left-wing) parties decrease (increase) when unemployment and inßation increase but in Sweden the opposite happens although the countries experience simultaneously an economic crisis. Fitting a threshold model in t...

Every discourse on right-wing populism is, more or less explicitly, a affect. From claims that emerges from background of racialized resentment the anger ‘left behind’, through to analyses how populist politicians mobilized hatred and rage in ‘post-truth era’, attempts explain emergence electoral success contemporary have centered In midst turbulence post 2007 financial crisis politics, has rep...

Building on the analyses of cultural hegemony in works Nancy Fraser and Wendy Brown, I argue paper that historic bloc (order hegemony) post-Fordist capitalism is characterized by a particular dynamic between several ?axes? gives rise to ?paradox engagement/disengagement?. The ?progressive-expertocratic? axis creates subject-position ?engaged self?, figure embodying certain promise political age...

Abstract Research on the politics of social investment finds public opinion to be highly supportive expansive reforms and expects this support matter for expanding investment. Expanding investment, it is argued, should particularly attractive left-wing voters parties because egalitarian potential such policies. However, few studies have examined what extent individual preferences concerning rea...

How do polls influence strategic voting under proportional representation? This paper derives a strategic calculus of voting for coalitions that generates testable predictions about the effects of polls on strategic voting in elections involving four or more parties. Incentives of leftist voters to vote for a centrist over a noncentrist party are shown to increase with the difference in expecte...