Throughout this election, the claim has been made repeatedly that the Conservative party is fear-mongering to win votes. But Chris Erikson, a University of British Columbia professor in the school of ...

The prior use of the word fearful is far from the use of fear in the first sense as honor and respect. When the word "fear" is used in this other sense, it comes from a Greek word that means cowardly.

The Conservatives are not unique when they use the politics of fear. All parties do it, and it goes beyond politics, says a UBC professor. In fact, the use of fear as a tool has ancient roots.

Supporters of far-right party Vox check their phones outside the party headquarters while waiting for results of the general election in Madrid on April 28. (Manu Fernandez/AP) Politics isn’t ...