Acta Politica is an academic journal focused on political science research, dedicated to publishing high-quality papers that cover a wide range of political science topics and research methodologies.

《Acta Politica》是一本专注于政治学研究的学术期刊，致力于发表高质量的政治学论文，涵盖广泛的政治学主题和研究方法。

Acta Politica

This study aims to provide theoretical and empirical clarity on whether people in "new" and precarious self-employment support the same political parties as those in traditional forms. Theoretical clarity is needed as the voting literature predominantly perceives self-employment in terms of class-based theories or insider/outsider theories, i.e., as a privileged grouping with shared interests as (potential) employers. Alternative perspectives, looking into the heterogeneity and precarization of self-employment have received less attention. Empirically, quantitative data are needed: Previous voting studies have not been able to differentiate the self-employed, either due to the lack of relevant indicators or because of low-N problems. Focusing on the Netherlands, this study addresses these shortcomings by analyzing data among over 800 self-employed without employees, using the Solo Self-Employment Panel. This study finds that the simple association between self-employment and rightist orientations is largely an oversimplification, and for growing segments of self-employment even a misrepresentation.

Giedo Jansen

Farewell to the rightist self-employed? ‘New self-employment’ and political alignments

告别右翼个体户？“新自雇”与政治联盟

Joost van Spanje

Costin Ciobanu

Greta Arancia Sanna

Privileged interests on the party agenda: Bitcoin-related issues in two countries since 2020

政党议程上的特权利益：2020年以来两国比特币相关议题

Abstract This article studies the strategic considerations behind far-right movement-partyism in the context of ‘new’ issues such as Russia’s war against Ukraine. The question of military support to Ukraine, high energy prices, and the reception of war refugees soon became salient issues in many European states. In Germany, the government, dominated by the centre-left, moved towards greater military support. The loudest opponents of arms supply and sanctions were found within the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD). Perhaps paradoxically, many AfD politicians, together with a variety of far-right social movement groups and prominent activists, even went to the streets, portraying themselves as new ‘peace movement’. The article asks: What are the far rights’ motives behind going to the streets? What should these efforts organizationally achieve? And what does street mobilization in the context of war teach us about the state of far-right movement-partyism more generally? The article highlights the following strategic motives of the far right: (1) the long-term aim of strengthening of organizational structures beyond the electoral arena and (2) the attraction of (former) left-wingers through ‘Querfront’ (‘cross-front’) strategies. The article also studies (3) far-right activists’ ambivalent self-assessments of their success. Further analysing these strategic considerations, the article provides important contributions to debates on the far right's mainstreaming and normalization efforts, their own intellectual reflection of strategy, and the impact of their efforts.

Manès Weisskircher

Far-right movement-party activism as strategy: Germany’s ‘peace movement’ during Russia’s war against Ukraine

作为策略的极右运动-政党活动：俄罗斯对乌克兰战争期间德国的“和平运动”

Kjersti E. Dahl

Disagreement orientation: exploring disagreement orientation and its impact on political participation among Norwegian adolescents

分歧取向：探讨挪威青少年分歧取向及其对政治参与的影响

Abstract Research on political parties and social movements has long developed independently, separated by the disciplinary boundaries of political science and sociology. We see the recent successes of ‘movement parties’ as a push to bridge the two disciplinary traditions in order to describe this new hybrid party type accurately. To this end, we ask to what extent and under what conditions do we observe movement parties in European party systems, and how can we define the various subtypes? In the introduction to the special issue, we make three contributions. First, we identify existing definitions and empirical examples in the study of movement parties based on a systematic review of the emerging literature. Second, we operationalize Herbert Kitschelt's influential definition of lower levels of programmatic and organizational investment coupled with a higher degree of protest mobilization. Third, we introduce the individual contributions to the special issue and situate them within the relevant theoretical debates. Utilizing a new set of quantitative indicators, we empirically assess how parties identified as movement parties in the existing literature score on programmatic, organizational, and protest dimensions. The analysis underscores the heterogeneity of movement parties, with only a few cases aligning with Kitschelt's comprehensive definition.

Endre Borbáth

Fred Paxton

Movement parties in Europe: a comparative assessment

欧洲的运动型政党：一项比较评估

Zim Nwokora

Anton Pak

Riccardo Pelizzo

Correction to: The conditional effects of party system change on economic growth in Africa

更正：政党制度变化对非洲经济增长的制约作用

Abbreviation	Acta Polit
Journal Impact	1.31
Quartiles(Global)	POLITICAL SCIENCE(Q2)

ISSN	0001-6810, 1741-1416
h-index	44

Publication Information	Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.，Publishing cycle: 4 issues per year，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2006，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:7.10%， Gold OA Rate: 33.61%

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Farewell to the rightist self-employed? ‘New self-employment’ and political alignments

Privileged interests on the party agenda: Bitcoin-related issues in two countries since 2020

Far-right movement-party activism as strategy: Germany’s ‘peace movement’ during Russia’s war against Ukraine

Disagreement orientation: exploring disagreement orientation and its impact on political participation among Norwegian adolescents

Movement parties in Europe: a comparative assessment

Privileged interests on the party agenda: Bitcoin-related issues in two countries since 2020

Movement parties in Europe: a comparative assessment

Disagreement orientation: exploring disagreement orientation and its impact on political participation among Norwegian adolescents

Far-right movement-party activism as strategy: Germany’s ‘peace movement’ during Russia’s war against Ukraine

Correction to: The conditional effects of party system change on economic growth in Africa