The mobilization of culturally rooted issues has altered political competition throughout
Western Europe. This article analyzes to what extent the mobilization of immigration issues …

The study has integrated the civic voluntarism and planned behavior model to check the
intentions of people towards political crowdfunding. Participation in politics is the civic duty …

Concerns over affective polarization in Western democracies are growing. But which
broader political distinctions are also affective demarcations? As inter-party cooperation is …

The relationship between a subject's ideological persuasion with the belief and spread of
fake news is the object of our study. Departing from a left-vs. right-wing framework, a …

The issue of European integration is turning out to be a force that polarises both public
opinion and political elites across Europe. This chapter reviews the literature on the …

The words" left" and" right" often signal a political divide in debates about topics as diverse
as abortion, capital punishment, gun control, social welfare, taxation, immigration, and the …

Understanding the dynamics of opinion depolarization is pivotal to reducing the political
divide in our society. We propose an opinion dynamics model, which we name the social …

Given the significance of the left‐right dimension as one of the most frequently employed
capping term of ideological thought in most western democracies, the question arises as to …

Do party policy offerings simply reflect public opinion or do parties shape public demand for
policies? Theories of party position-taking and the operation of democracy expect parties to …

The semantics of left and right provide an efficient heuristic to understand and organize
political information. Most studies on the left—right schema have focused on established …