Abstract. The scientific debate about populism has been revitalised by the
recent rise of extreme‐right parties in Western Europe. Within the broad
discussion about populism and its relationship with extreme‐right, this article
is confined to three topics: a conceptual, an epistemological and an empirical
issue. First, taking a clear position in the ongoing definition struggle,
populism is define... hiện toàn bộ
Abstract. This article examines a model of the domestic political economy of
subjective employment insecurity in advanced industrial societies. Based on data
on people's attitudes toward their job as well as levels of and kinds of social
protection collected in 15 OECD countries, it shows that there are distinct
manifestations of job insecurity that are affected differently by distinct
aspects of... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractImmigration is an increasingly important political issue in Western
democracies and a crucial question relates to the antecedents of public
attitudes towards immigrants. It is generally acknowledged that information
relayed through the mass media plays a role in the formation of anti‐immigration
attitudes. This study considers whether news coverage of immigrants and
immigration issues rela... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractUse of metaphors is a staple feature of how we understand policy
processes – none more so than the use of ‘policy stages’/'cycles’ and ‘multiple
streams’. Yet even allowing for the necessary parsimony of metaphors, the former
is often criticised for its lack of ‘real world’ engagement with agency, power,
ideology, turbulence and complexity, while the latter focuses only on
agenda‐setting b... hiện toàn bộ
This article presents feminist comparative policy (FCP) as a new field of study.
It argues that FCP scholars have successfully developed a distinct approach to
doing political research and a significant scientific community which follows
this approach. In doing so, FCP scholars, particularly since the early 1990s,
have moved this area of study into a new stage of institutionalization and
influence... hiện toàn bộ
AbstractParticipatory innovations (PIs) have been introduced as one possible
cure to democratic malaises. Empirical research on these mechanisms for citizen
participation has, however, focused on their effects on individuals and policy
outcomes, leaving aside their consequences for the wider public. This article
fills part of the gap by examining the effect of PIs on perceived legitimacy.
The arti... hiện toàn bộ
Abstract. Mass communication is multi‐dimensional. One often overlooked
alternative medium of mass communication, when it is systematic and not random,
is public art ‐ murals, graffiti, wall painting and posters. The linking of art
and politics has precedents in Basque culture. It is the thesis of this article
that public art is an important factor in the political communication process in
the Bas... hiện toàn bộ
Claims have been made that national institutions influence public preferences,
as well as structuring patterns of social division. This article analyses
attitudes to redistribution and financial cheating in Norway and the USA. On the
aggregate level the results show that there are striking differences between the
two countries regarding attitudes to redistribution and confidence in the state,
whil... hiện toàn bộ
The country tables of the data collection ‘Political Data 1945–1990. Party
Government in 20 Democracies’ (European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 24,
No. 1 (July 1993), pp. 1–119) are updated and corrected to the end of 1995.
Errors and omissions on the level of separate Ministers and/or Ministries have
been corrected as well. These are listed as ‘changes/corrections’ in the
corresponding tab... hiện toàn bộ
Focusing on individual-level determinants of public support for EU membership,
this paper brings the literature on Western European integration to bear on the
Eastern and Central European accession. Existing theories have focused on
utilitarian expectations, political values, and domestic politics as
determinants of public attitudes toward European integration. The paper
discusses the applicabilit... hiện toàn bộ