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...

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...

This paper introduces a simple method for estimating cultural orientation, the affiliation of hypertext documents in a polarized field of discourse. Using a probabilistic model based on cocitation information, two experiments are reported. The first experiment tests the model’s ability to discriminate between leftand right-wing documents about politics. In this context the model is tested on th...

Previous research on personality and political attitudes has been conducted in countries where political parties from the center dominate the political system. In the present research (N = 675), we focus on the relationship between the dark side of human personality and political orientation and extremism, respectively, in the course of a presidential election where the two candidates represent...

Populism is present in the current political scenario a modern way associated with neoliberalism. The objective of this work to associate subjective impacts produced by neoliberal policies on individual, mainly feeling competition and vision as source profit and, no longer exchange, rise right-wing populism last decade response crises capitalist system itself, largely due inefficiency left offe...

Since old-age programmes mitigate life-course risks that are relevant to individuals across socio-economic groups in ageing societies, all parties have a political incentive support these initiatives. Nevertheless, pre-existing partisan commitments bind the policy instruments use. Cabinet-level analyses of OECD economies demonstrate left incumbency relies more on public expenditure than right-w...

In April 2022, Marine Le Pen, the leader of National Ally, not only entered second round French presidential election again, but also achieved a new high in results far-right parties with 41.45% votes. Similarly, June parliamentary elections, Ally’s seats increased from 9 to 89, which is undoubtedly further affirmation Ally reform. Since 2011, Pen who has carried out top-down reform put forward...

Far-right and populist right-wing political parties have garnered significant scholarly attention in recent years. They acquired importance also European institutions such as the Parliament (EP). We explore this issue by focusing on Conservatives Reformists’ (ECR) group EP. analyse its current former main national party delegations – British Conservative Party, Polish Law Justice Brothers of It...