Interesting that Bluesky is certain that UK labor's right turn on immigration is doomed. A sharp right turn on immigration by Danish social democrats (yes, with a left turn on welfare) led them to pulverize the populist right. I do not know it will work, but the determinism in opinions is strange.
How do voters behave in democracies with unstable parties? In a newly published article in Party Politics, @pward89.bsky.social and I examine South Korea, a textbook case of an “ephemeral party system.” The article is Open Access.
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At least some political science literature tells us that the Danish strategy could indeed have worked. See here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What do the useful idiots, also called Trump-fan Chinese pro-democracy dissidents, say by now actually?
And an observational study showing strong and independent effects of populist voters switching because of welfare AND immigration concerns.
(The authors, for whatever reason, misrepresent their massively underpowered interaction effects model.)
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The new sherrif in the US is voting with North Korea, Belarus and Russia in the UN. Welcome to the brave new world. news.sky.com/story/trump-...
