Left vs Right – The Person Behind the Political Ideology
Publisher: Borgerhoff & Lamberigts
Left- and right-wing parties have never been so polarised as they are nowadays. In Left vs Right, Alain Van Hiel provides answers to questions about why people join political parties and their motivations. He explains how, historically speaking, scholars have focused mainly on right-wing people and he discusses the findings of all these studies. Are people on the right intolerant? Scared? Aggressive? Stuck in their ideas? The left does not escape scrutiny either. Are left-wing people authoritarian? Prejudiced? Overly fearful of doomsday scenarios and the end of the world? Do they discriminate against certain groups? Or are they self-righteous? This book is not a left- or right-wing pamphlet, but rather a psychological analysis of the individual behind the ideology.
