Abstract Japan has experienced many of the factors associated with populism, but not an upsurge populism in national-level politics. We posit that dominant frames Japanese print media coverage form a crucial and overlooked part explanation for absence populism. Our qualitative human-coded analysis quality tabloid demonstrates overall, newspapers act as gatekeepers set agenda is unfavorable righ...

The toxic thrust of white supremacy runs through American culture like an electric current. Without apology,Jim Crow is back suffocating society in a wave voter suppression laws, ongoing attempts by rightwing politicians to implement form apartheid pedagogy, and the resurgence right-wing cultural politics organized around legacy nationalism supremacy. emergence centers power also evident reign ...

In this study we explain extreme right-wing voting behaviour in the countries of the European Union and Norway from a micro and macro perspective. Using a multidisciplinary multilevel approach, we take into account individual-level social background characteristics and public opinion alongside country characteristics and characteristics of extreme right-wing parties themselves. By making use of...

This article elucidates the latest developments in the 'politics of memory' regarding the military regime in Brazil. Only recently, I argue, has the Brazilian state abandoned its 'politics of si lence' and started to actively champion the memory of the left-wing 'resistance'. This new strategy climaxed in a governmenta l crisis over a historic plan to establish a National Truth Commission to in...

Why do victims sometimes receive sympathy for their suffering and at other times scorn and blame? Here we show a powerful role for moral values in attitudes toward victims. We measured moral values associated with unconditionally prohibiting harm ("individualizing values") versus moral values associated with prohibiting behavior that destabilizes groups and relationships ("binding values": loya...

What should be our orientation to the socio-technical as climate predictions worsen; ecological crises and wars escalate mass migration and refugee numbers; right-wing populism sweeps through politics; automation threatens workers’ jobs and austerity policies destabilize society? What is to be done when it is not “business as usual” and even broken concepts of progress seem no longer to be prog...