Does PR promote political extremism? Evidence from the West European parties of the extreme right1

Carter, Elisabeth

doi:10.1080/00344890408523252

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“…Second, in contrast to previous work suggesting that electoral systems are not crucial (e.g. Carter, 2002Carter, , 2004Kitschelt & McGann, 1995), for Norris 'rules do matter'. Proportional representation with a low legal threshold offers the most conducive institutional environment for ERP breakthrough and success.…”

Section: New Kids On the Blockmentioning

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Grandpa's Fascism and the New Kids on the Block: Contemporary Approaches to the Dark Side of Europe

Goodwin

2007

Ethnopolitics

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Grandpa's Fascism and the New Kids on the Block: Contemporary Approaches to the Dark Side of Europe

Goodwin

2007

Ethnopolitics

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“…Veugelers & Magnan 2005: 855). Carter (2002, 2004) argues that this may be due to the ignorance of radical right‐wing voters regarding the consequences of the electoral system, or that they may put emphasis on other issues. Voting for an RRP party may also have a purely expressive function, which does not aspire to representation of an RRP party as such but aims to send a warning to the government (protest voting theory: see, e.g., Mayer & Perrineau 1992), direct government's interest to immigration policy (single‐issue theory: see, e.g., Mudde 1999; Eatwell 2003: 49–51) or to persuade the moderate right to move towards the right‐authoritarian position in socio‐economic and socio‐cultural issues to counterbalance the left‐libertarian ideology of the parties of the New Left (new politics theory: see, e.g.…”

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Subnational political opportunity structures and the success of the radical right: Evidence from the March 2004 regional elections in France

Kestilä

Söderlund

2007

European J Political Res

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Abstract. This article attempts to explain the impact of department‐level political opportunity structures on the electoral success of the French Front National (FN) in the 2004 regional elections. The concept of ‘political opportunity structure’ refers to the degree of openness of a particular political system and the external institutional or socio‐economic constraints and opportunities that it sets for political parties. Comparative analysis across subnational units is conducted where the 94 departments of mainland France are the units of analysis. The significance of electoral institutions (district magnitude), party competition (effective number of parties), electoral behaviour (turnout) and socioeconomic conditions (immigration and unemployment) on the ability of the FN to gather votes across the departments is assessed by means of multiple regression. The empirical results show that the subnational political opportunity structures have been of great importance for the FN. Some four out of the five independent variables are statistically significant and explain a great deal of the variance in the two dependent variables (electoral support for FN list and index of electoral success). Turnout and district magnitude are negatively correlated with the electoral fortunes of the FN, while unemployment and the effective number of party lists are positively correlated with the success of the FN in the regional elections. The variable that indicates the share of non‐European immigrants does not provide additional explanatory power in a statistically significant way.

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“…Por el lado de la oferta, han sido mencionados otros factores como obstáculos a la eclosión de un partido como VOX: los efectos del sistema electoral, un aspecto abordado en distintos estudios comparados (Norris 2005;Carter 2004), la estructura de múltiples issues de la competencia electoral y la relevancia del cleavage centro-periferia ( Kaltwasser 2014: 36-39). El nativismo implica el despliegue de una retórica excluyente, de carácter nacional y cultural, que es más compleja de articular cuando ya hay partidos que desarrollan un discurso nacionalista y los ciudadanos tienen, en algunos lugares, identidades duales.…”

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Partidos spin-off, partidos nicho y derecha radical: El caso de Vox en España

Rubia

Rodríguez

2022

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Los estudios publicados sobre VOX se han centrado en el análisis del perfil de sus votantes, la lógica de su ideología y sus relaciones con la derecha radical. El presente trabajo pretende ser una aportación al estudio de este partido analizando sus diferencias con los partidos nicho, característicos de la derecha radical europea. Con este fin, el estudio desarrolla la categoría analítica de los partidos spin-off, su origen, su tipo de liderazgo y su estrategia de múltiples issues en lugar de un solo issue, como los partidos nicho. Asimismo, desarrolla el análisis de la porosidad y trasvase de líderes y votantes entre VOX y sus competidores, especialmente el PP, así como la estrategia de contención de los partidos mainstream para hacer frente al éxito electoral del partido spin-off.

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Does PR promote political extremism? Evidence from the West European parties of the extreme right1

Cited by 46 publications

References 20 publications

Grandpa's Fascism and the New Kids on the Block: Contemporary Approaches to the Dark Side of Europe

Grandpa's Fascism and the New Kids on the Block: Contemporary Approaches to the Dark Side of Europe

Subnational political opportunity structures and the success of the radical right: Evidence from the March 2004 regional elections in France

Partidos spin-off, partidos nicho y derecha radical: El caso de Vox en España

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