... ideational momentum to keep their issues and positions from being seen as lacking credibility and legitimacy. This shows how events that do not have huge political consequences on a country can still have a substantial ideational impact in this country. Link (open access): tinyurl.com/3sbrhy8x

We also show that both liberal and socialist parties seemingly move rightwards by increasing positive attention to markets. We theorize that liberal parties do so to push for increased legitimacy for their issues and positions, while the most left-wing party has to surrender to the...

Here, Martin and I show how there was a big shift towards more attention to markets in the Danish parliament right after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We also show that speeches in discourse moved closer to the most right-wing parties. This we see as how the event created an ideational momentum.

Looks super interesting! Just found it through the library, looking forward to reading

I hope you’ll enjoy it! (The end). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Moreover, the article also shows (in line with recent research) that social policies like unemployment support and shorter workdays got a push on the political agenda after the Russian Revolution (3/4).

For example, the rightwing Liberals tried to cast Social Democrats as Bolshevik supporters, while the Social Democrats tried to cast their policies as the best way to prevent revolution. (2/4)

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