Doomed to Failure? UKIP and the Organisational Challenges Facing Right-Wing Populist Anti-Political Establishment Parties

Abedi, Amir; Lundberg, Thomas

doi:10.1093/pa/gsn036

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“…This is consistent with the party's populist character (Abedi and Lundberg 2009), and in particular the juxtaposition between the hard-working British people on the one hand, and those who have failed them, including Brussels "Eurocrats," but also extending to "career politicians". Given this populist character, "sincerity" acquires much greater importance than technical competence.…”

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Political Brands: Can Parties Be Distinguished by Their Online Brand Personality?

Rutter

Hanretty

Lettice

2015

Journal of Political Marketing

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This paper investigates whether or not five English political parties are differentiating themselves based on the brand personality they are communicating through their websites. The relative brand positions of five English political parties are analysed using Aaker's brand personality scale. The text from each party website is analysed using content analysis and a dictionary-based tool. The results are plotted in relation to one another on a correspondence analysis map. We find that the two main dimensions on which parties' brand personalities differ relate to the trade-offs between communicating Competence and communicating Sincerity, and between communicating Sophistication and communicating Ruggedness. We find that parties' brand personalities are distinctive, with the exception of the Green party, and that the position of one party, the United Kingdom Independence Party, is particularly distinctive. Our research uses Aaker's existing framework for thinking about brand personalities, rather than creating a new framework for politics.By using an existing framework, we are able to use tools developed in other disciplines, and show their usefulness for the study of political marketing.

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Political Brands: Can Parties Be Distinguished by Their Online Brand Personality?

Rutter

Hanretty

Lettice

2015

Journal of Political Marketing

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“…Researchers also have explored the socio-demographic and political characteristics of UKIP voters and the party's similarities to and differences from other rightwing parties in Europe (Abedi and Lundberg, 2009;John and Margetts, 2009;Whitaker and Lynch, 2011;Goodwin, 2011, 2014;Ford, Goodwin and Cutts, 2012). In UKIP's case, research indicates that the party's strongest appeal is to older, less well educated men, many of whom are or formerly were in lower status occupations (Ford and Goodwin, 2014: ch.…”

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Modelling the dynamics of support for a right-wing populist party: the case of UKIP

Clarke

Whiteley

Borges

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Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

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“…Using the example of Welsh and Galician nationalist parties, Elias (2009) shows that some ethno-territorial parties have moved toward a mainstream profile. Similarly, Abedi and Lundberg (2009) describe the efforts of the anti-EU U.K. Independence Party to broaden its profile as a strategy to get rid of its "single-issue party" image.…”

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Mainstream or Niche? Vote-Seeking Incentives and the Programmatic Strategies of Political Parties

Meyer

Wagner

2013

Comparative Political Studies

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Parties can choose to concentrate on topics which other parties cover relatively little. In such cases, they have a programmatic niche profile compared with their mainstream rivals. We argue that parties should be more likely to switch between a niche and a mainstream profile in response to unsatisfactory electoral results. However, these vote-seeking incentives to change salience profiles should have greater influence on parties that are small, young, and/or in opposition. Such parties will find it easier and more attractive to change their salience profiles. We use a measure of niche profiles based on manifesto coding and test our hypotheses in 22 countries with a transition model. For niche-to-mainstream transitions in party profiles, the results confirm our expectations, but vote-seeking incentives do not lead mainstream parties to shift to a niche profile. The results of this article have implications for our understanding of the dynamics of party competition in multiparty systems.

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Doomed to Failure? UKIP and the Organisational Challenges Facing Right-Wing Populist Anti-Political Establishment Parties

Cited by 55 publications

References 12 publications

Political Brands: Can Parties Be Distinguished by Their Online Brand Personality?

Political Brands: Can Parties Be Distinguished by Their Online Brand Personality?

Modelling the dynamics of support for a right-wing populist party: the case of UKIP

Mainstream or Niche? Vote-Seeking Incentives and the Programmatic Strategies of Political Parties

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