Physiological research suggests that social attitudes, such as political beliefs, may be partly hard-wired in the brain. Conservatives have heightened sensitivity for detecting emotional faces and use emotion more effectively when campaigning. As the left face displays emotion more prominently, we examined 1538 official photographs of conservative and liberal politicians from Australia, Canada,...

Abstract What motivated right-wing and conservative parties to endorse a policy of land expropriation redistribution in Brazil? I argue that urban-dominated endorsed agrarian reform order to: (i) reduce crime wealthier metropolises by reversing rural–urban migration; (ii) gain competitive advantage against left-wing challengers. To test this argument conduct process tracing, analysing over 500 ...

In this paper I test whether parties matter for fiscal policy choices, i.e., government spending and level of taxes. It is part of conventional wisdom that the Left spends and taxes more than the Right. However, there are very few convincing empirical studies that show this to be the case. I argue that this might reflect either the data sets used, or the employed methodology. By using a very la...

Abstract In this article, we explore the consequences of increasing presence both left- and right-wing populist parties in government, critically reflecting on recent scholarship topic, underlining promising venues for future research outlining a conceptual framework which constitutes background special issue entitled ‘Populism Power its Consequences’. Our main contribution is empirical, since ...

At the onset of each flight bout in flies, neural circuits in the CNS must rapidly integrate multimodal sensory stimuli and synchronously engage hinges of the left and right wings for coordinated wing movements. Whereas anatomical and physiological investigations of flight have been conducted on larger flies, molecular genetic studies in Drosophila have helped identify neurons that mediate vari...