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The Personalization of Electoral Participation? The Relationship Between Trait Evaluations of Presidential Candidates and Turnout Decisions in American Presidential Elections 1980–2020
The personalization thesis claims that leaders’ influence over voters has increased. While research consistently shows that candidates influence...
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Profiling the personality of populist foreign policy makers: a leadership trait analysis
The burgeoning research into the impact of populism on foreign policy mostly revolves around polarising chief executives, but has still paid little...
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Candidate Authenticity: ‘To Thine Own Self Be True’
In recent electoral contests, political observers and media outlets increasingly report on the level of “authenticity” of political candidates....
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Partisan Stability During Turbulent Times: Evidence from Three American Panel Surveys
The past decade has witnessed profound changes in the tenor of American party politics. These changes, in tandem with growing affective polarization...
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From Victimization to Omnipotence: The Pathos of Erdoğan as a Constituent Symbol of the Neo-Ottomanist Narrative
This chapter begins with an analysis of the cult of Erdoğan and his journey from victimhood to omnipotence as the basis of the Neo-Ottomanist...
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Conflict-Induced Migration and Poverty
Conflict is more explicitly broad compared to other important issues in international relations which are quite narrow. Conflict is said to exist...
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Embrace and Promote the Liberal Spirit
In this chapter a third kind of counterstrategy against populism is presented and discussed, namely, to embrace and promote the liberal spirit....
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The Social Psychology of Procedural Justice: Findings in Hong Kong
This research aims to comprehensively illustrate the importance of perceived procedural justice among the public to police and governing authorities...
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Closing the Gender Gap in Internal Political Efficacy? Gender Roles and the Masculine Ethos of Politics in Spain
Given women’s gains in employment, education, and economic status, the persistent gender gap in internal political efficacy remains a puzzle for...
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Language Barriers: Causal Evidence of Linguistic Item Bias in Multilingual Surveys
Accurate estimation of public opinion in diverse countries requires survey questions that operate similarly across languages. We leverage 3,026...
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“Utopia at Sea” from the Captain’s Chair: Are Autonomous Ships the Real Solution to Human Error?
This chapter is inspired by the literary work titled “Utopia” by Thomas More, with reference to the quote: “[F]or things will never be perfect, until...
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Managing Employee Engagement in Crisis Situations in Develo** Countries: The Case for Responsible Leadership in the Public Sector in Ghana
Responsible leaders (RL) play a significant role in ensuring employee engagement and their successful management during crisis. Guided by the...
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Unpacking political trust: a review of conceptualisations, determinants, and consequences
Political trust is routinely invoked by social scientists and pundits, usually in a crisis narrative that sees a danger to democracy in declining or...
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The Origins of Political Extremism
On the individual level, LWE and RWE are both strongly predicted by anomic tendencies, the presence of authoritarian personality traits, and a lack...
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The Strategic Use of Debasing and Vulgar Language in Italy’s Contemporary Politics: Beppe Grillo and Matteo Salvini
This chapter addresses the debasing and rude public language of Matteo Salvini, secretary of the Lega party, and the derisory and deliberate...
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Populist Thin Ideology: From a Theoretical Conceptualisation to the Development of a New Scale
This chapter taps into the concept of populist thin ideology defined by Mudde and Kaltwasser as a set of two fundamental beliefs: (A) the society is...
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Physical Appearance and Vote Shares in the Irish European Parliament Elections 2019
The relationship between of physical attractiveness of political candidates and their electoral success has previously widely been investigated in...
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Social Movements and Social Disobedience During the COVID-19 Crisis: The Case of the Italian University
The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the analysis of the riots and social movements against the introduction of the Green Pass in Italy....
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The Ephemeral and The Metropolis: A Study on a Philosophical Idea from Romantic Aesthetic to Media Theory
By reviewing an extensive corpus of philosophical studies and sources published during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this chapter will...
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Whose Status Quo Is It, Anyway? Regions, Hierarchies, and Satisfaction
Growing dissatisfaction with the global status quo, combined with heightened assertiveness by China, Russia, and several middle powers reveals...