Gripped by the past: Nostalgia and the 2010 Labour party leadership contest

Jobson, Richard; Wickham‐Jones, Mark

doi:10.1057/bp.2010.25

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“…Kenig (2009) details the range of selection methods parties use, and there has been significant focus on more democratic methods for leader selection (Cross and Katz 2013), which seems to be a general trend in many Western countries (Cross and Blais 2011). There is also significant literature on particular party elections in various countries, such as Britain (Jobson and Wickham-Jones 2010), Belgium (Wauters 2010), Israel (Hazan 1997), and many others. Naturally, the most widely examined country is the US, in which political parties have been a fixture of political life since its early days (Wilentz 2005).…”

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Primarily about Primaries

Borodin¹,

Lev²,

Shah³

et al. 2019

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Much of the social choice literature examines direct voting systems, in which voters submit their ranked preferences over candidates and a voting rule picks a winner. Real-world elections and decision-making processes are often more complex and involve multiple stages. For instance, one popular voting system filters candidates through primaries: first, voters affiliated with each political party vote over candidates of their own party and the voting rule picks a candidate from each party, which then compete in a general election.We present a model to analyze such multi-stage elections, and conduct the first quantitative comparison (to the best of our knowledge) of the direct and primary voting systems with two political parties in terms of the quality of the elected candidate. Our main result is that every voting rule is guaranteed to perform almost as well (i.e., within a constant factor) under the primary system as under the direct system. Surprisingly, the converse does not hold: we show settings in which there exist voting rules that perform significantly better under the primary system than under the direct system.

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Primarily about Primaries

Borodin¹,

Lev²,

Shah³

et al. 2019

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“…Even if its nostalgia can be seen as particularly conspicuous, the political mainstream and left-wing challengers may equally rely on a romantic understanding of the past (cf. Jobson & Wickham-Jones, 2010;Kenny, 2017). In that light, further comparison of nostalgic social policy narratives would prove insightful.…”

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Those were the days: welfare nostalgia and the populist radical right in the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden

Schreurs

2020

J. int. comp. soc. policy

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In academia and beyond, it has become commonplace to regard populist parties – in particular, those on the radical right – as the archetypical embodiment of politics of nostalgia. Demand-side studies suggest that nostalgic sentiments motivate populist radical-right (PRR) voting and welfare chauvinist attitudes, yet systematic analyses of the nostalgic discourse that these parties promote have not been forthcoming. This paper seeks to fill that lacuna by analysing how the Freedom Party of Austria, the Dutch Party for Freedom and the Sweden Democrats framed the historical fate of the welfare state in their electoral discourse between 2008 and 2018. It demonstrates that their commitment to welfare chauvinism finds expression in a common repertoire of “welfare nostalgia,” manifested in the different modes of “reaction,” “conservation” and “modernisation.” Giving substance to a widespread intuition about PRR nostalgia, the paper breaks ground for further research into nostalgic ideas about social policy.

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“…Nostalgia is an attachment to the past ( Jobson & Wickham-Jones, 2010 ), a preference of the experiences, the products ( Cattaneo & Guerini, 2012 ) and the places ( Chan, 2011 ) from the past.…”

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Sentimentality and nostalgia in elderly people in Bulgaria and Greece – Cross-validity of the questionnaire SNEP and cross-cultural comparison

Stoyanova¹,

Giannouli²

2017

Eur. J. Psychol.

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Sentimentality and nostalgia are two similar psychological constructs, which play an important role in the emotional lives of elderly people who are usually focused on the past. There are two objectives of this study - making cross-cultural comparison of sentimentality and nostalgia among Bulgarian and Greek elderly people using a questionnaire, and establishing the psychometric properties of this questionnaire among Greek elderly people. Sentimentality and nostalgia in elderly people in Bulgaria and Greece were studied by means of Sentimentality and Nostalgia in Elderly People questionnaire (SNEP), created by Gergov and Stoyanova (2013). For the Greek version, one factor structure without sub-scales is proposed, while for the Bulgarian version of SNEP the factor structure had four sub-scales, besides the total score. Together with some similarities (medium level of nostalgia and sentimentality being widespread), the elderly people in Bulgaria and Greece differed cross-culturally in their sentimentality and nostalgia related to the past in direction of more increased sentimentality and nostalgia in the Bulgarian sample. Some gender and age differences revealed that the oldest male Bulgarians were the most sentimental. The psychometric properties of this questionnaire were examined for the first time in a Greek sample of elders and a trend was found for stability of sentimentality and nostalgia in elderly people that could be studied further in longitudinal studies.

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Gripped by the past: Nostalgia and the 2010 Labour party leadership contest

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

Primarily about Primaries

Primarily about Primaries

Those were the days: welfare nostalgia and the populist radical right in the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden

Sentimentality and nostalgia in elderly people in Bulgaria and Greece – Cross-validity of the questionnaire SNEP and cross-cultural comparison

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