ABSTRACT This article contributes a historical perspective to scholarship on migration and right‐wing politics in Germany. By examining legal texts, party programmes and parliamentary debates, it traces how West German national identity discourses shaped immigration and foreigner policies between the guest worker recruitment stop in 1973 and the ...
Simon Ahrens
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Tolerance for democratic norm violations increases when sincerity replaces accuracy as a marker of honesty. [PDF]
Huttunen KJA, Lewandowsky S.
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Left, Right and Centre: National Political Authority and Its Symbolisation
ABSTRACT This lecture explores ideas through which we both do and analyse national politics in the modern world, as both concepts and symbols, examining three conceptual pairs: Left/Right, Centre/Periphery and Liberal/Authoritarian. I argue that Left/Right is a symbolic structure that is necessary for democratic politics, but not reflective of deep ...
Jonathan Hearn
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A Right-Wing Populist Turn in the Conservative Party of Canada? Continuities and Ruptures Under the Leadership of Pierre Poilievre (2022-2025). [PDF]
Peker E, Laxer E, Vivès R.
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Social Effects of the Vote of the Majority: An Experiment on the Brexit‐Vote
ABSTRACT The 2016 EU referendum result was widely perceived as a statement against immigration. This paper investigates whether information about majority voting outcomes influences attitudes towards immigrants. Using a survey experiment conducted in England in 2017–2018, we randomly exposed participants to truthful information indicating that local ...
Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon +1 more
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The Role of Uncertainty Mindsets in Shaping Diversity Attitudes and Their Downstream Effects on Commitment to Societal Change and Right-Wing Populist Voting. [PDF]
Takizawa R +3 more
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Epistocracy and the Commitment Problem
ABSTRACT The epistocracy debate has turned largely on the character of the electorate—what voters know, whether competence filters can be designed well, and what filtered selection produces. Another strand has focused on the legitimacy of epistocratic justifications. I ask instead about the equilibrium effects of the institution.
Simon Goldstein
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Populist Attitudes in Adolescence are Measurable, Stable, and Linked to Political Trust: A Longitudinal Analysis of German High-School Students. [PDF]
Ziemes JF, Eckstein K.
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How Democratic Backsliding Shapes the Entry, Non‐Entry, and Waiting of Potential Civil Servants
ABSTRACT Democratic backsliding is coupled with politicians' undermining of the civil service's professionalism and commitment to liberal democratic values. Existing research has examined civil servants' responses. Nonetheless, politicians' attacks on democracy and the bureaucracy also affect potential recruits' career choices.
Reut Marciano +2 more
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Exploring the influence of electoral political orientation on health outcomes: a scoping review. [PDF]
Mejía JFR, Boing AF, Peres MA.
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