Electoral support for extreme right-wing parties: A sub-national analysis of western European elections

Jesuit, David K.; Paradowski, Piotr R.; Mahler, Vincent A.

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2009.01.009

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“…This development has led to a proliferation of studies focusing on the question why these parties became so electorally successful (Lubbers et al, 2002;Arzheimer and Carter, 2006;Jesuit et al, 2009). Even though this kind of research has become a minor industry, some aspects are still neglected.…”

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Explaining the strange decline of the populist radical right Vlaams Belang in Belgium: The impact of permanent opposition

Pauwels

2011

Acta Polit

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Despite the proliferation of studies exploring the success of the populist radical right, there is a lack of research on why these parties decline or fail. And when this question is addressed, the literature focuses on supply-side variables such as leadership battles or a lack of organizational structure. These explanations largely fall short, however, in understanding the strange decline of the Belgian Vlaams Belang at the latest elections. Instead, it is argued that there is less space available for the populist radical right. Survey data suggests that two competing parties succeeded in exploiting issues that were previously owned exclusively by the Vlaams Belang (VB). More surprising, however, is the impact of the cordon sanitaire on the decline of the VB. This study shows that although populist radical right parties might not perform well in government, they will face difficulties too if they stay in permanent opposition, because they become perceived as irrelevant in the long run.

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Explaining the strange decline of the populist radical right Vlaams Belang in Belgium: The impact of permanent opposition

Pauwels

2011

Acta Polit

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“…For instance, relative deprivation has been operationalized by the inflation rate (Anderson, 1996;Knigge, 1998), the percentage of the population that have reached a defined level of education (e.g. Bloom, 2013), income redistribution (Jesuit et al, 2009), income inequality (e.g. Dinas and van Spanje, 2011), the housing market conditions (Bowyer, 2008), economic growth rate (Swank and Betz, 2003;Van der Brug et al, 2005), or various measures of globalization (e.g.…”

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The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Meta-Analysis of Structural Factors

Amengay

Stockemer

2018

Political Studies Review

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In this meta-analysis, we summarize the results of 48 peer-reviewed articles on the radical rightwing vote in Western Europe. These results come from 48 peer-reviewed articles published from January 1990 until October 2017. We use the following inclusion criteria, the selected articles must focus on Western Europe, they must have the vote share of one or several radical right-wing parties as the dependent variable, and at least one structural variable as the independent variable. We find that more than 20 different structural variables have been tested. Most of them, like unemployment, reflect mitigate results in explaining the electoral support for radical right-wing parties. For others, like immigration, the statistical significance and direction of the relationship seem to be highly dependent on the type of proxies used. In fact, only a few variables, such as crime rates and the district magnitude seem to have a consistent effect on the vote share for radical right-wing parties.

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“…More nuanced analyses examine moderating and/or mediating factors such as social capital/cohesion (Fitzgerald and Lawrence, 2011;Jesuit et al, 2009), the expansiveness of the welfare state (Arzheimer, 2009;Jesuit et al, 2009;Swank and Betz, 2003), political opportunity structure (Spies and Franzmann, 2011), or the permissiveness of the electoral system (Carter, 2002;Golder, 2003;Norris, 2005).…”

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“…Much of this scholarship looks at macro-level causes such as unemployment levels (Knigge, 1998), immigration levels (Knigge, 1998;Lubbers et al, 2002), a combination of these (Bowyer, 2008;Golder, 2003;Jesuit et al, 2009;Rydgren and Ruth, 2011), and/or an increase in aggregate levels of political disaffection (Knigge, 1998).…”

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Preference for radical right-wing populist parties among exclusive-nationalists and authoritarians

Dunn

2013

Party Politics

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Abstract:The literature on authoritarianism and exclusive forms of nationalism often implies that authoritarian and exclusive-nationalist individuals will prefer radical right-wing populist parties such as Austria's FPÖ. The theoretical case for such implications appears sound as party programs for radical right-wing populist parties invoke rhetoric that should appeal to individuals with either of these characteristics. To date, these implications have not been examined. This paper examines quantitative survey data from 5 Western European countries with electorally viable radical right-wing populist parties to determine if radical right-wing populist parties are preferred by authoritarians and/or exclusive-nationalists. Analyses indicate that the radical right-wing populist parties studied here are consistently preferred by exclusive-nationalist individuals, though not necessarily to all other parties, but only inconsistently preferred by authoritarian individuals. While more nuanced investigation is still needed, it is clear that, contrary to the assumptions in the authoritarianism literature, radical right-wing populist parties cannot always rely on authoritarian individuals for support.

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Electoral support for extreme right-wing parties: A sub-national analysis of western European elections

Cited by 91 publications

References 30 publications

Explaining the strange decline of the populist radical right Vlaams Belang in Belgium: The impact of permanent opposition

Explaining the strange decline of the populist radical right Vlaams Belang in Belgium: The impact of permanent opposition

The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Meta-Analysis of Structural Factors

Preference for radical right-wing populist parties among exclusive-nationalists and authoritarians

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