Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia.

Coordenação: Bruno Gós, Simone Frangella e Virgínia Calado (ICS-Ulisboa)

23 JAN | 11H00 - 12H30 | SALA 1 (Room 1)
 

«National populism: The revolt against liberal democracy» 
(Book presentation)

Roger Eatwell
University of Bath, UK

At a time when radical right parties have been gaining electoral terrain all over Western Europe, their very marginal results in the Iberian Peninsula remains a puzzle of significant social scientific importance. In this article, we provide an overview of previous explanations of the disparity in electoral success between Iberian radical right parties and those in the rest of Western Europe, outlining what we argue to be the shortcomings of these explanations. We then propose and provide empirical evidence to support two additional explanations.

Securing the confidence of the public is of great importance for institutions like the judiciary and the courts. This is why an empirical literature on public confidence in courts has emerged in the last decades. There are a few examples of comparative research on public trust and courts; they suggest that people living in countries where the judiciary is more “independent” are more likely to trust the judicial system. However, there is an intriguing aspect to this almost exclusive focus on independence.