Reid Gómez
Biographic Data
| ID | 91893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reid Gómez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reid |
| FAMILY NAME | Gómez |
| SIGNATURE | GÓMEZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6810-0628 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 470 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Threat perception and partisan animosity: Evidence from Argentina and Brazil
This study examines antagonism between opposing political camps in Argentina and Brazil, two Latin American countries that have experienced heightened polarization and growing support for contentious right-wing populist leaders. Using original survey data, we analyze how specific perceived threats relate to social distance toward supporters of rival presidential candidates, which we use as a proxy for outgroup animosity. We examine multiple threa…
The Strengthening Link Between Donald Trump’s Online Attention and Wall Street Sentiment
The influence of Donald Trump on media and public discourse has been a topic of extensive analysis. His unparalleled communication skills and ability to dominate online attention raise questions about the potential market implications of his media presence. This study examines weekly data from 2020 to 2025 to test the relationship between online search interest in Trump, measured by Google Trends, and bullish sentiment from the American Associati…
Critical junctures and party innovation: The transformation of radical left parties in Greece, Portugal and Spain
How have secularisation and educational expansion affected support for the mainstream right in Western Europe
While the electoral decline of Social democracy has received considerable attention in the literature, much less is known about how the structural changes experienced by advanced capitalist societies in the past decades have affected support for the mainstream right. In order to fill this gap, this article examines the relationship between secularisation, educational expansion and support for Conservative and Christian democratic parties in 18 We…
The imbalanced effect of politicization: How EU politicization favours Eurosceptic parties
This article investigates how the systemic politicization of the EU is associated with support for different political parties. We argue that, while politicization involves actions by both Eurosceptic and Europhile parties, it does not affect parties at both extremes of the continuum in the same way. To investigate these differentiated effects, we leverage data from the European Elections Study and the Chapel Hill expert survey covering two decad…
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties: A four-country study
Job insecurity is a pervasive phenomenon whose effects on support for different parties have attracted increasing attention in the literature. A growing body of research has assessed the relationship between job insecurity and the success of radical parties in Western democracies, but results are still inconclusive due to the complex nature of this independent variable. This article contributes new evidence to the current debates on this topic by…
Radical Left Voters in Western Europe
Radical Left Voters in Western Europe explores who votes for Radical Left Parties in contemporary Western Europe, and why. Once considered a relic of the past which was doomed to disappear in affluent societies, Radical Left Parties were able to survive unprecedented electoral crises in the 1980s and 1990s to become a stable and significant feature of contemporary West European politics. Despite this, our knowledge of the electorate of contempora…
When the chickens come home to roost: The long‐term impact of party positions on religious voting
Despite the widespread secularisation of West European societies, research has only found mixed evidence of a decline in the influence of religion on people's electoral preferences. A relatively recent line of inquiry has adopted a ‘top‐down’ approach to this problem, arguing that the impact of religion not only depends on structural social changes, but also on parties’ convergence on moral issues. Drawing upon this ‘top‐down’ approach and the ‘i…
Joining the party: Incentives and motivations of members and registered sympathizers in contemporary multi-speed membership parties
Many parties have updated their recruitment strategies and offer softer routes for joining their ranks. In some parties, registered sympathizers are given virtually the same rights as traditional members with substantially lower costs. This begs the question, why would somebody take the further step of joining such parties as full members rather than sympathizers? This article analyzes this question by using membership surveys from three left-win…
A Shared World
Research Article| September 01 2021 A Shared World: People of These Stories Reid Gómez Reid Gómez Reid Gómez Assistant professor at the University of Arizona in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. She is currently completing a monograph titled “The Web of Differing Versions: Where Africa Ends and America Begins.” She has also completed a short story collection, “Ershod,” and two novels “Home” and “A Woman’s Body Was Found There.” She is…
The gender gap in political interest revisited
To what extent does conventional survey measurement capture the political interest of men and women equally well? We aim to answer this question by relying on unique data from a national online survey in Spain, where we used various questions unpacking the standard indicator of political interest. The findings show that men and women nominate different personal political interests. We also find that the gender gap in political interest vanishes o…
Silko’s Vévé and the Web of Differing Versions
In Almanac of the Dead, Leslie Marmon Silko asks, who has spiritual possession of the Americas? This question cannot be answered outside of Silko’s premises: it is impossible for outsiders to know where Africa ends and America begins; and the truth resides in the web of differing versions. In this essay, I maintain that Silko’s novel is written as a vévé—a crossroads where Gods and ancestors are subjects capable of narration. Using Silko’s langua…
Beyond the 2008 Great Recession: Economic factors and electoral support for the radical left in Europe
One of the most striking political developments occurring during the Great Recession has been the growth of the radical left in some European countries. Though the literature is far from conclusive, it has generally been argued that the economy is not a main reason driving people’s support for non-mainstream parties (particularly the Greens and the radical right). In this article, we contend that this is not the case for radical left parties (RLP…
The limits of organizational innovation and multi-speed membership: Podemos and its new forms of party membership
The increasing introduction of organizational innovations has changed the notion of party membership. Some political parties now offer multiple kinds of formal affiliation, whereas others offer a varied repertoire of modes of engagement in party activities without formal membership distinctions. However, little is still known about the consequences of these changes. This article studies the case of Podemos, a party that has adopted a considerably…
Our Stolen Grandmother: The Entanglement of Slavery and Colonization in Anna Lee Walters's Ghost Singer
Our Stolen GrandmotherThe Entanglement of Slavery and Colonization in Anna Lee Walters's Ghost Singer Reid Gómez What do we know, really? What can we know, finally? But more importantly, how do we begin to articulate these stories, their stories, this (un)knowing? These conversations take very seriously the question of the absence, or some would even say, the impediments, in the work of mourning the millions of dead in the aftermath of slavery. H…
Elecciones municipales en España. La personalización del voto
Cuando los ciudadanos votan en elecciones municipales, ¿tienen en cuenta solo factores a nivel nacional? O, por el contrario, ¿prestan también atención a elementos de carácter local? En este artículo sostenemos que la evaluación que hacen los ciudadanos de los candidatos a la alcaldía es un factor particularmente importante para explicar el sentido del voto en las elecciones locales en España. Para verificar empíricamente la existencia de esta re…
Bridging the enduring gender gap in political interest in Europe: The relevance of promoting gender equality
Notwithstanding the improvement in gender equality in political power and resources in European democracies, this study shows that, on average, declared interest in politics is 16 per cent lower for women than for men in Europe. This gap remains even after controlling for differences in men's and women's educational attainment, material and cognitive resources. Drawing on the newly developed European Institute for Gender Equality's (EIGE) Gender …
Radical-Left Populism during the Great Recession: Podemos and Its Competition with the Established Radical Left
The 2008 Great Recession has altered party allegiances in many countries. This has been very visible in some of the countries hardest hit by the crisis, such as Spain. The Spanish case stands out as the only one in which a fully newly created radical-left populist party, Podemos, has attracted sizeable support. Its success is more intriguing given its capacity to attract many former supporters of the established radical left, Izquierda Unida. Thi…
Why Does Alejandro Know More about Politics than Catalina? Explaining the Latin American Gender Gap in Political Knowledge
This article tests contextual and individual-level explanations of the gender gap in political knowledge in Latin American countries. It suggests that this gap is impacted by political and economic settings through two interrelated mechanisms: gender accessibility (that is, the extent of available opportunities for women to influence the political agenda) and gender-bias signaling (that is, the extent to which women play important roles in the pu…
The Meaning of Written English: A Place to Dream as One Pleases
I examine Rey Chow's assertion that the process of racialization parallels the challenge of coming to terms with language. In 2011, Anthony Webster coedited the American Indian Culture and Research Journal special issue "American Indian Languages in Unexpected Places" and called for an extension of his work on Blackhorse Mitchell's novel Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navajo Boy. My argument looks at writing as a matter of choices the writer makes …
Red Europe versus no Europe? The impact of attitudes towards the EU and the economic crisis on radical-left voting
The 2014 European Parliament election saw a relatively large increase in the size of radical-left parties (RLPs), particularly in Western Europe. This article aims to provide new ways of thinking about the dynamics of radical-left voting by analysing the changing role of attitudes towards the European Union in explaining support for RLPs at European Parliament elections during the Great Recession. It is argued that the Europeanisation of economic…
Elecciones municipales en España: Un Análisis Multinivel De Los Determinantes Individuales Y Contextuales Del Voto
Desde la instauración de los primeros ayuntamientos democráticos en 1979, se han celebrado diez elecciones municipales en España. En los escasos estudios dedicados a ellas, el voto ha sido habitualmente explicado recurriendo a variables de ámbito nacional según el conocido modelo de las elecciones de segundo orden. En este trabajo examinaremos la validez de estos patrones de comportamiento cuando introducimos también factores explicativos de cará…
New members as party modernisers: The case of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland
People are running, but where are they heading?’ Disentangling the sources of electoral volatility
Varieties of Radicalism: Examining the Diversity of Radical Left Parties and Voters in Western Europe
Radical left parties (RLPs) are diverse and several RLP subtypes have been distinguished in the literature. However, the degree to which these subtypes are linked to significantly different policy proposals has not been analysed, and little is known about whether subtypes are associated with differences in their respective voters’ characteristics. This article analyses the policy positions of RLPs across a number of issues, using manifesto and ex…
Radical-Left Populism during the Great Recession: Podemos and Its Competition with the Established Radical Left
The 2008 Great Recession has altered party allegiances in many countries. This has been very visible in some of the countries hardest hit by the crisis, such as Spain. The Spanish case stands out as the only one in which a fully newly created radical-left populist party, Podemos, has attracted sizeable support. Its success is more intriguing given its capacity to attract many former supporters of the established radical left, Izquierda Unida. Thi…
Varieties of Radicalism: Examining the Diversity of Radical Left Parties and Voters in Western Europe
Radical left parties (RLPs) are diverse and several RLP subtypes have been distinguished in the literature. However, the degree to which these subtypes are linked to significantly different policy proposals has not been analysed, and little is known about whether subtypes are associated with differences in their respective voters’ characteristics. This article analyses the policy positions of RLPs across a number of issues, using manifesto and ex…
Bridging the enduring gender gap in political interest in Europe: The relevance of promoting gender equality
Notwithstanding the improvement in gender equality in political power and resources in European democracies, this study shows that, on average, declared interest in politics is 16 per cent lower for women than for men in Europe. This gap remains even after controlling for differences in men's and women's educational attainment, material and cognitive resources. Drawing on the newly developed European Institute for Gender Equality's (EIGE) Gender …
Why Does Alejandro Know More about Politics than Catalina? Explaining the Latin American Gender Gap in Political Knowledge
This article tests contextual and individual-level explanations of the gender gap in political knowledge in Latin American countries. It suggests that this gap is impacted by political and economic settings through two interrelated mechanisms: gender accessibility (that is, the extent of available opportunities for women to influence the political agenda) and gender-bias signaling (that is, the extent to which women play important roles in the pu…
The gender gap in political interest revisited
To what extent does conventional survey measurement capture the political interest of men and women equally well? We aim to answer this question by relying on unique data from a national online survey in Spain, where we used various questions unpacking the standard indicator of political interest. The findings show that men and women nominate different personal political interests. We also find that the gender gap in political interest vanishes o…
Red Europe versus no Europe? The impact of attitudes towards the EU and the economic crisis on radical-left voting
The 2014 European Parliament election saw a relatively large increase in the size of radical-left parties (RLPs), particularly in Western Europe. This article aims to provide new ways of thinking about the dynamics of radical-left voting by analysing the changing role of attitudes towards the European Union in explaining support for RLPs at European Parliament elections during the Great Recession. It is argued that the Europeanisation of economic…
The limits of organizational innovation and multi-speed membership: Podemos and its new forms of party membership
The increasing introduction of organizational innovations has changed the notion of party membership. Some political parties now offer multiple kinds of formal affiliation, whereas others offer a varied repertoire of modes of engagement in party activities without formal membership distinctions. However, little is still known about the consequences of these changes. This article studies the case of Podemos, a party that has adopted a considerably…
The Economy Strikes Back: Support for the EU during the Great Recession
This article looks at the role of economic conditions in shaping people's attitudes to the EU during the Great Recession. In contrast with previous research, findings suggest that in this particular instance support for the EU across Member States was affected by economic factors. In particular, both higher unemployment and higher interest rates were strongly associated with lower levels of support. Findings also suggest that young Europeans resp…
Shared Identity and the End of Conflict? How Far Has a Common Sense of ‘Northern Irishness’ Replaced British or Irish Allegiances since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
Despite political progress in Northern Ireland, the polity may arguably only fully stabilise when its population regards themselves as ‘Northern Irish’ rather than merely as subsets of British and Irish parent nations. Power-sharing and relative peace since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement may have offered the possibility of the development of a common Northern Irish identity, to allow consolidation of a political entity challenged by sections of t…
The imbalanced effect of politicization: How EU politicization favours Eurosceptic parties
This article investigates how the systemic politicization of the EU is associated with support for different political parties. We argue that, while politicization involves actions by both Eurosceptic and Europhile parties, it does not affect parties at both extremes of the continuum in the same way. To investigate these differentiated effects, we leverage data from the European Elections Study and the Chapel Hill expert survey covering two decad…
Factionalism in multi-level contexts: When party organization becomes a device
This article provides a dynamic framework through which factionalism can be examined and the circumstances of individual parties compared in multi-level contexts. We discuss the interaction between factionalism and party structure by setting out a model of factional organization dependent on the tolerance of host parties to dissent and their degree of vertical integration, their combination yielding four possible strategies for opposition faction…
When the chickens come home to roost: The long‐term impact of party positions on religious voting
Despite the widespread secularisation of West European societies, research has only found mixed evidence of a decline in the influence of religion on people's electoral preferences. A relatively recent line of inquiry has adopted a ‘top‐down’ approach to this problem, arguing that the impact of religion not only depends on structural social changes, but also on parties’ convergence on moral issues. Drawing upon this ‘top‐down’ approach and the ‘i…
Joining the party: Incentives and motivations of members and registered sympathizers in contemporary multi-speed membership parties
Many parties have updated their recruitment strategies and offer softer routes for joining their ranks. In some parties, registered sympathizers are given virtually the same rights as traditional members with substantially lower costs. This begs the question, why would somebody take the further step of joining such parties as full members rather than sympathizers? This article analyzes this question by using membership surveys from three left-win…
Beyond the 2008 Great Recession: Economic factors and electoral support for the radical left in Europe
One of the most striking political developments occurring during the Great Recession has been the growth of the radical left in some European countries. Though the literature is far from conclusive, it has generally been argued that the economy is not a main reason driving people’s support for non-mainstream parties (particularly the Greens and the radical right). In this article, we contend that this is not the case for radical left parties (RLP…
People are running, but where are they heading?’ Disentangling the sources of electoral volatility
Elecciones municipales en España: Un Análisis Multinivel De Los Determinantes Individuales Y Contextuales Del Voto
Desde la instauración de los primeros ayuntamientos democráticos en 1979, se han celebrado diez elecciones municipales en España. En los escasos estudios dedicados a ellas, el voto ha sido habitualmente explicado recurriendo a variables de ámbito nacional según el conocido modelo de las elecciones de segundo orden. En este trabajo examinaremos la validez de estos patrones de comportamiento cuando introducimos también factores explicativos de cará…
New members as party modernisers: The case of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland
Elecciones municipales en España. La personalización del voto
Cuando los ciudadanos votan en elecciones municipales, ¿tienen en cuenta solo factores a nivel nacional? O, por el contrario, ¿prestan también atención a elementos de carácter local? En este artículo sostenemos que la evaluación que hacen los ciudadanos de los candidatos a la alcaldía es un factor particularmente importante para explicar el sentido del voto en las elecciones locales en España. Para verificar empíricamente la existencia de esta re…
Critical junctures and party innovation: The transformation of radical left parties in Greece, Portugal and Spain
A Shared World
Research Article| September 01 2021 A Shared World: People of These Stories Reid Gómez Reid Gómez Reid Gómez Assistant professor at the University of Arizona in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. She is currently completing a monograph titled “The Web of Differing Versions: Where Africa Ends and America Begins.” She has also completed a short story collection, “Ershod,” and two novels “Home” and “A Woman’s Body Was Found There.” She is…
Faccionalismo e integración vertical en contextos multinivel. El caso del Partido Nacionalista Vasco
Els determinants dels nivells d’integració vertical en els partits polítics i la seva influència sobre les estratègies de les faccions internes dels partits han estat poc estudiats en la literatura, i els pocs treballs que han tractat aquest tema s’han centrat en partits d’àmbit estatal. Aquí argumentem que l’organització dels partits afecta de forma definitiva el comportament de les faccions internes, de tal manera que el faccionalisme tindrà un…
Christmas among Hispanics
Faccionalismo e integración vertical en contextos multinivel. El caso del Partido Nacionalista Vasco
Els determinants dels nivells d’integració vertical en els partits polítics i la seva influència sobre les estratègies de les faccions internes dels partits han estat poc estudiats en la literatura, i els pocs treballs que han tractat aquest tema s’han centrat en partits d’àmbit estatal. Aquí argumentem que l’organització dels partits afecta de forma definitiva el comportament de les faccions internes, de tal manera que el faccionalisme tindrà un…
Factionalism in multi-level contexts: When party organization becomes a device
This article provides a dynamic framework through which factionalism can be examined and the circumstances of individual parties compared in multi-level contexts. We discuss the interaction between factionalism and party structure by setting out a model of factional organization dependent on the tolerance of host parties to dissent and their degree of vertical integration, their combination yielding four possible strategies for opposition faction…
People are running, but where are they heading?’ Disentangling the sources of electoral volatility
Varieties of Radicalism: Examining the Diversity of Radical Left Parties and Voters in Western Europe
Radical left parties (RLPs) are diverse and several RLP subtypes have been distinguished in the literature. However, the degree to which these subtypes are linked to significantly different policy proposals has not been analysed, and little is known about whether subtypes are associated with differences in their respective voters’ characteristics. This article analyses the policy positions of RLPs across a number of issues, using manifesto and ex…
The Economy Strikes Back: Support for the EU during the Great Recession
This article looks at the role of economic conditions in shaping people's attitudes to the EU during the Great Recession. In contrast with previous research, findings suggest that in this particular instance support for the EU across Member States was affected by economic factors. In particular, both higher unemployment and higher interest rates were strongly associated with lower levels of support. Findings also suggest that young Europeans resp…
Shared Identity and the End of Conflict? How Far Has a Common Sense of ‘Northern Irishness’ Replaced British or Irish Allegiances since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
Despite political progress in Northern Ireland, the polity may arguably only fully stabilise when its population regards themselves as ‘Northern Irish’ rather than merely as subsets of British and Irish parent nations. Power-sharing and relative peace since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement may have offered the possibility of the development of a common Northern Irish identity, to allow consolidation of a political entity challenged by sections of t…
Red Europe versus no Europe? The impact of attitudes towards the EU and the economic crisis on radical-left voting
The 2014 European Parliament election saw a relatively large increase in the size of radical-left parties (RLPs), particularly in Western Europe. This article aims to provide new ways of thinking about the dynamics of radical-left voting by analysing the changing role of attitudes towards the European Union in explaining support for RLPs at European Parliament elections during the Great Recession. It is argued that the Europeanisation of economic…
Elecciones municipales en España: Un Análisis Multinivel De Los Determinantes Individuales Y Contextuales Del Voto
Desde la instauración de los primeros ayuntamientos democráticos en 1979, se han celebrado diez elecciones municipales en España. En los escasos estudios dedicados a ellas, el voto ha sido habitualmente explicado recurriendo a variables de ámbito nacional según el conocido modelo de las elecciones de segundo orden. En este trabajo examinaremos la validez de estos patrones de comportamiento cuando introducimos también factores explicativos de cará…
New members as party modernisers: The case of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland
Our Stolen Grandmother: The Entanglement of Slavery and Colonization in Anna Lee Walters's Ghost Singer
Our Stolen GrandmotherThe Entanglement of Slavery and Colonization in Anna Lee Walters's Ghost Singer Reid Gómez What do we know, really? What can we know, finally? But more importantly, how do we begin to articulate these stories, their stories, this (un)knowing? These conversations take very seriously the question of the absence, or some would even say, the impediments, in the work of mourning the millions of dead in the aftermath of slavery. H…
Elecciones municipales en España. La personalización del voto
Cuando los ciudadanos votan en elecciones municipales, ¿tienen en cuenta solo factores a nivel nacional? O, por el contrario, ¿prestan también atención a elementos de carácter local? En este artículo sostenemos que la evaluación que hacen los ciudadanos de los candidatos a la alcaldía es un factor particularmente importante para explicar el sentido del voto en las elecciones locales en España. Para verificar empíricamente la existencia de esta re…
Bridging the enduring gender gap in political interest in Europe: The relevance of promoting gender equality
Notwithstanding the improvement in gender equality in political power and resources in European democracies, this study shows that, on average, declared interest in politics is 16 per cent lower for women than for men in Europe. This gap remains even after controlling for differences in men's and women's educational attainment, material and cognitive resources. Drawing on the newly developed European Institute for Gender Equality's (EIGE) Gender …
Radical-Left Populism during the Great Recession: Podemos and Its Competition with the Established Radical Left
The 2008 Great Recession has altered party allegiances in many countries. This has been very visible in some of the countries hardest hit by the crisis, such as Spain. The Spanish case stands out as the only one in which a fully newly created radical-left populist party, Podemos, has attracted sizeable support. Its success is more intriguing given its capacity to attract many former supporters of the established radical left, Izquierda Unida. Thi…
Why Does Alejandro Know More about Politics than Catalina? Explaining the Latin American Gender Gap in Political Knowledge
This article tests contextual and individual-level explanations of the gender gap in political knowledge in Latin American countries. It suggests that this gap is impacted by political and economic settings through two interrelated mechanisms: gender accessibility (that is, the extent of available opportunities for women to influence the political agenda) and gender-bias signaling (that is, the extent to which women play important roles in the pu…
The Meaning of Written English: A Place to Dream as One Pleases
I examine Rey Chow's assertion that the process of racialization parallels the challenge of coming to terms with language. In 2011, Anthony Webster coedited the American Indian Culture and Research Journal special issue "American Indian Languages in Unexpected Places" and called for an extension of his work on Blackhorse Mitchell's novel Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navajo Boy. My argument looks at writing as a matter of choices the writer makes …
Silko’s Vévé and the Web of Differing Versions
In Almanac of the Dead, Leslie Marmon Silko asks, who has spiritual possession of the Americas? This question cannot be answered outside of Silko’s premises: it is impossible for outsiders to know where Africa ends and America begins; and the truth resides in the web of differing versions. In this essay, I maintain that Silko’s novel is written as a vévé—a crossroads where Gods and ancestors are subjects capable of narration. Using Silko’s langua…
Beyond the 2008 Great Recession: Economic factors and electoral support for the radical left in Europe
One of the most striking political developments occurring during the Great Recession has been the growth of the radical left in some European countries. Though the literature is far from conclusive, it has generally been argued that the economy is not a main reason driving people’s support for non-mainstream parties (particularly the Greens and the radical right). In this article, we contend that this is not the case for radical left parties (RLP…
The limits of organizational innovation and multi-speed membership: Podemos and its new forms of party membership
The increasing introduction of organizational innovations has changed the notion of party membership. Some political parties now offer multiple kinds of formal affiliation, whereas others offer a varied repertoire of modes of engagement in party activities without formal membership distinctions. However, little is still known about the consequences of these changes. This article studies the case of Podemos, a party that has adopted a considerably…
The gender gap in political interest revisited
To what extent does conventional survey measurement capture the political interest of men and women equally well? We aim to answer this question by relying on unique data from a national online survey in Spain, where we used various questions unpacking the standard indicator of political interest. The findings show that men and women nominate different personal political interests. We also find that the gender gap in political interest vanishes o…
Joining the party: Incentives and motivations of members and registered sympathizers in contemporary multi-speed membership parties
Many parties have updated their recruitment strategies and offer softer routes for joining their ranks. In some parties, registered sympathizers are given virtually the same rights as traditional members with substantially lower costs. This begs the question, why would somebody take the further step of joining such parties as full members rather than sympathizers? This article analyzes this question by using membership surveys from three left-win…
A Shared World
Research Article| September 01 2021 A Shared World: People of These Stories Reid Gómez Reid Gómez Reid Gómez Assistant professor at the University of Arizona in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. She is currently completing a monograph titled “The Web of Differing Versions: Where Africa Ends and America Begins.” She has also completed a short story collection, “Ershod,” and two novels “Home” and “A Woman’s Body Was Found There.” She is…
Radical Left Voters in Western Europe
Radical Left Voters in Western Europe explores who votes for Radical Left Parties in contemporary Western Europe, and why. Once considered a relic of the past which was doomed to disappear in affluent societies, Radical Left Parties were able to survive unprecedented electoral crises in the 1980s and 1990s to become a stable and significant feature of contemporary West European politics. Despite this, our knowledge of the electorate of contempora…
When the chickens come home to roost: The long‐term impact of party positions on religious voting
Despite the widespread secularisation of West European societies, research has only found mixed evidence of a decline in the influence of religion on people's electoral preferences. A relatively recent line of inquiry has adopted a ‘top‐down’ approach to this problem, arguing that the impact of religion not only depends on structural social changes, but also on parties’ convergence on moral issues. Drawing upon this ‘top‐down’ approach and the ‘i…
How have secularisation and educational expansion affected support for the mainstream right in Western Europe
While the electoral decline of Social democracy has received considerable attention in the literature, much less is known about how the structural changes experienced by advanced capitalist societies in the past decades have affected support for the mainstream right. In order to fill this gap, this article examines the relationship between secularisation, educational expansion and support for Conservative and Christian democratic parties in 18 We…
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