Tag: ideology

To cite the article: Casiraghi, M.C.M., Curini, L., Maggini, N. and Nai, A. (2024). Who looks up to the Leviathan? Ideology, political trust, and support for restrictive state interventions in times of crisis. European Political Science Review. DOI:10.1017/S1755773923000401 The article is open access and can be accessed here. Abstract The extent in which voters from different ideological viewpoints support state interventions to curb crises remains an outstanding conundrum, marred by conflicting evidence. In this article, we...

A new book edited by Lorenzo De Sio and Romain Lachat has been just published by Routledge; information is available here. The book presents the results of the Issue Competition Comparative Project (ICCP) (data and documentation is openly accessible and available free of charge through the ICCP and GESIS websites), which analysed six elections in six important European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and UK) between 2017 and 2018 through a focus on post-ideological issue competition, leveraging a fresh theoretical perspective – and innovative data collection and analysis methods – emerging from issue yield theory. The contributors to this volume cast...

Questo articolo è una traduzione del post originale pubblicato su LSE EUROPP (‘Testing Ronald Inglehart’s ‘value change’ theory with the manifestos of western European parties’) Uno dei tanti contributi di Ronald Inglehart, che si è spento l’8 maggio scorso, è stata la teoria del ‘cambiamento valoriale’. Secondo questa prospettiva, con la crescente capacità delle società industriali avanzate di poter soddisfare i bisogni materiali dei propri cittadini, la formazione dei loro valori, attitudini e opinioni politiche risente sempre più di questioni non materiali. Nonostante la popolarità di questa teoria, larga parte della...

(English translation by Elisabetta Mannoni) So Macron and Le Pen get to the second round. An historical result that - as almost all commentators highlighted - excludes both socialists and the neo-Gaullist right, who had dominated the French political life for decades. However, what are the reasons and voting motivations behind this result? Where does Macron’s success come from? What about his cross-cutting appeal? What about Mélenchon’s exploit? Does it come from his controversial positions? Or is it a identification vote by the French left, disappointed with the Hamon candidacy? We can’t answer to these questions only by looking at the...