7 The Sweden Democrats

Jungar, Ann-Cathrine

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-58197-6_8

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“…During the last two decades, radical right parties in Europe have often opted for the latter. The “de‐demonisation” of the National Rally in France (Mayer, ) and the transformation of the Sweden Democrats (Jungar, ) are two prominent cases in point.…”

Section: Why and How Did German Exceptionalism Come To An End?mentioning

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“Don't Mention the War!” how Populist Right‐Wing Radicalism Became (Almost) Normal in Germany

Arzheimer

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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Section: Why and How Did German Exceptionalism Come To An End?mentioning

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“Don't Mention the War!” how Populist Right‐Wing Radicalism Became (Almost) Normal in Germany

Arzheimer

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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“…looking at the characteristics of individual who made the choice to become political candidates. In our study we analyse the supply side (candidates), not demand (voting), although arguably in municipal elections the threshold to becoming a candidate for the radical right was very low given that the Sweden Democrats had difficulties attracting enough candidates to fill all seats that they gained (Jungar, 2016).…”

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Citizens' candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections

Helske¹,

Kawalerowicz²

2021

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This article uses Swedish register data to study the labour market experiences of radical right-wing candidates. We look at different measures of economic insecurity (labour market participation trajectories, experience of unemployment in social networks, relative decline of men’s income and relative growth of jobs for foreign-born workers vis-a-vis natives) and examine whether they are predictors of candidates running for the Sweden Democrats, the main radical right-wing party in Sweden, as opposed to another mainstream political party. We find some confirmation for the notion that radical right-wing candidates are citizens’ candidates (Bó, Finan, Folke, Persson and Rickne, 2018) as far as labour market experiences of radical right-wing candidates are markedly different from mainstream party candidates. Those with turbulent or out-of-labour market labour market trajectories are much more likely to run for the Sweden Democrats, as opposed to other parties. Additionally, the same is true for candidates embedded in social networks with higher levels of unemployment, while working in high skilled industry markedly lowers probability of running for the Sweden Democrats, especially for male candidates with low educational attainment. We find no confirmation for decline in relative status of men and mixed results for ethnic threat hypothesis.

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“…Over the last decade, SD has made significant efforts to normalise itself politically, emphasizing its self-perception as a "social-conservative party with a nationalist ethos" (SD, 2011) to distance itself from its neo-Nazi roots. Even as it remains in opposition to national politics, the cordon sanitaire against the party has been weakened (Backlund, 2016;Jungar, 2016). This gradual normalisation cannot be understood in isolation from its commitment to a (nostalgic) modernisation of the social system, through which SD has attempted to establish itself as an affiliate of the bloc of centreright parties (Wingborg, 2016).…”

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Those were the days: welfare nostalgia and the populist radical right in the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden

Schreurs

2020

J. int. comp. soc. policy

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In academia and beyond, it has become commonplace to regard populist parties – in particular, those on the radical right – as the archetypical embodiment of politics of nostalgia. Demand-side studies suggest that nostalgic sentiments motivate populist radical-right (PRR) voting and welfare chauvinist attitudes, yet systematic analyses of the nostalgic discourse that these parties promote have not been forthcoming. This paper seeks to fill that lacuna by analysing how the Freedom Party of Austria, the Dutch Party for Freedom and the Sweden Democrats framed the historical fate of the welfare state in their electoral discourse between 2008 and 2018. It demonstrates that their commitment to welfare chauvinism finds expression in a common repertoire of “welfare nostalgia,” manifested in the different modes of “reaction,” “conservation” and “modernisation.” Giving substance to a widespread intuition about PRR nostalgia, the paper breaks ground for further research into nostalgic ideas about social policy.

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7 The Sweden Democrats

Cited by 20 publications

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“Don't Mention the War!” how Populist Right‐Wing Radicalism Became (Almost) Normal in Germany

“Don't Mention the War!” how Populist Right‐Wing Radicalism Became (Almost) Normal in Germany

Citizens' candidates? Labour market experiences and radical right-wing candidates in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections

Those were the days: welfare nostalgia and the populist radical right in the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden

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