Political Parties, Pressure Groups, and Voting BehaviorDaniel E
The dramatic rise in the disability insurance (DI) rolls in the last 20 years has been the subject of much controversy. While the relationship between DI and labor force participation has been the subject of a growing literature, the mechanism of this tr
Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. DOI: 10.1057/9781403920126Save Citation »Export Citation » Share Citation » A longitudinal analysis showing that the dynamics of British elections have actually become more “presidential.” Leaders of the major parties now figure more prominently ...
Political parties During much of the 20th century, Canada had two major political parties: the Progressive Conservatives and the Liberals. Although both parties were ideologically diverse, the Progressive Conservatives tended to be slightly to the right, while the Liberals were generally regarded as cen...
In elections that June, the LDP lost its majority and was forced into an awkward alliance with two smaller parties. Mori’s many missteps—for example, he referred to Japan as a “divine country,” a phrase that evoked Japan’s militaristic past—reduced his approval rating to an all-time...
3. Cultural andpolitical educationwhich aims to encourage women and men to participate actively in society through networks of cultural organizations, social movements, political parties, and trade unions. The article begins with a discussion of various understandings of nation building, then moves to...
Abstract :The UK is a unitary democracy and is typical of a constitutional monarchy.The main feature is the "parliamentary supremacy", the cabinet is the core of sovereign power, phantom, well-organized political parties.The creation of the first set of Western capitalist political systems is kno...
In the UK as elsewhere all mainstream parties believe in three central tenets. They believe that the rich should pay more tax, and favour progressive tax systems. They believe that the poor should receive benefits from the state so no one need go without a roof over their head, food on th...
As shown in Section 3, we retrieve these expressions from the election manifestos of the country's political parties. We argue that a frequent usage of these expressions is an indication that newspapers convey information about the core topics and ideas of political parties to citizens, which ...
We also observed stronger support for conspiracy mentality among voters of opposition parties (that is, those deprived of political control). Nonetheless, the quadratic effect of political orientation remained significant when adjusting for political control deprivation. We conclude that conspiracy mentality...