Social science research demonstrates that people are drawn to others perceived as similar. We extend this finding to political candidates by comparing the relative effects of candidate familiarity as well as partisan, issue, gender, and facial similarity on voters' evaluations of candidates. In...

Many scholars have argued that political values in advanced democracies have significantly changed and specifically that the right and left have realigned along new value dimensions. Herbert Kitschelt is one of the principal proponents of this view, arguing that political conflict in mature...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat die Politik in Großbritannien durch verschiedene Reformen den Schwerpunkt der Altersvorsorge von der gesetzlichen Rente hin zu privater und betrieblicher Altersvorsorge verschoben. Im Gegenzug hat die Finanzkompetenz der Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher sowie für...