If, as Arzheimer argues, party manifestos (that are usually of little relevance for the general public) have a sizeable impact on the right-wing vote, it is reason- able to assume that media effects of agenda setting and priming are even more important. Country-level studies for the ...
All the manifestos are like this, even the supposedly political ones. The Christchurch killer spends nearly ninety pages thumping out the far-right case for mass murder—then, at one point, he mentions that “when I was young I was a communist, then an anarchist and finally a libertarian ...
the party manifestos in the run-up to the election and felt I couldn’t even consider voting for and supporting Labour policies at all. Did anyone else decide not to to vote for the ‘lesser of two evils’ in order to keep the tories out and instead backed someone they truly supported?
who want all British warships to be built in Scotland but would love to see the Trident missile submarines (and surely also the nuclear-powered attack boats) kicked out of HM Naval Base Clyde. No doubt they will also insist that the Scottish naval base be kept strong despite...
1. Art manifestos, despite the good intentions of the writer should always “be taken with a grain of salt” as the cliché goes, because they are subject to the ego, pretensions, and plain old ignorance and stupidity of their authors. This goes all the way back to the Die Brücke mani...