In the Eye of the Beholder: The Perception of the List Pim Fortuyn and the Parliamentary Elections of May 2002

Holsteyn, J.J.M. van; Irwin, Galen A.; Ridder, J.M.

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“…Just as important was Fortuyn's ability -by speaking out loudly and proudly in a way that chimed with voters who were tired of what they saw as political correctness (Van Holsteyn et al 2003) -to roll together migration, asylumseekers, the multicultural society and criminality into a powerful amalgam: the 'foreigners issue' (see Van Kersbergen and Krouwel 2003;Van Kersbergen, forthcoming). Fortuyn managed to present separate issues of labour migration (employment, social security, health care, housing), political refugees and socioeconomic and cultural integration of migrants as essentially one single problem.…”

Section: The Emergence Of a New Political Agendamentioning

confidence: 97%

A double-edged sword! The Dutch centre-right and the ‘foreigners issue’

Kersbergen¹,

Krouwel²

2008

Journal of European Public Policy

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We study the impact of the 'foreigners issue' on centre-right politics in the Netherlands. This issue concerns a complex of problems related to migration, asylum-seekers, nationalism, multiculturalism and European integration. The Dutch centre-right has moved towards hard-line and restrictive policies in these areas. By connecting issues of immigration to right-wing core issues of law and order, centre-right parties hope to win an electoral advantage and to find an answer to populist political entrepreneurs. However, the politicization of immigration issues is a double-edged sword. Centre-right parties can benefit since they own the law and order and nationalist issues. But hard-line right-wing stances on immigration and multiculturalism also go against core centre-right values and may scare away voters. Too harsh a law and order, nationalistic and anti-foreigner profile can rip the centre-right apart. The direction of Dutch immigration and integration policies partly depends on the type of solution the centre-right finds for this dilemma.

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Section: The Emergence Of a New Political Agendamentioning

confidence: 97%

A double-edged sword! The Dutch centre-right and the ‘foreigners issue’

Kersbergen¹,

Krouwel²

2008

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…them a policy that better represents their preferences. The appearance of LFP in 2002 in the Netherlands constituted a new product in the political system that represented the right-wing attitudes of a part of the electorate that felt their opinions were not represented before [27]. Thus, we may theorize that such mismatches between electorate's perceptions and parties' positions are unlikely to hold for too long due to the dynamics of party competition.…”

Section: Changing Space Dimensionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet, it is difficult to discern how much these changes were due to variations in voters' preferences, and how much where due to issue saliency. However, given the accounts of [42,27] we may argue that punctuating events or processes are more likely to affect issue saliency than voters preferences. This is consistent with our decision to deal only with issue saliency.…”

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“…the electoral change in 2002 was not due to a shift to the right among voters, but to the addition of a new product in the electoral marketplace" ( [27], p. 169). The LPF succeeded in putting in a prominent position of the political agenda issues related to asylum-seekers, immigrants and criminality [27]. There are also empirical accounts of exogenous shocks that might radically change electoral outcomes [28,41].…”

Section: Changing Space Dimensionalitymentioning

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Political Spaces, Dimensionality Decline and Party Competition

García-Díaz

Zambrana-Cruz

Witteloostuijn

2013

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We built a computational model of political party competition in order to gain insight into the effect of the decrease in the number of relevant political issues (dimensions), and the change of their relative importance, on the number of surviving political parties, their strategy performance, and the degree of political party fragmentation. Particularly, we find that when there is a dimensionality reduction (i.e., a change from a two-dimensional issue space to a one-dimensional one, or, a substantial decrement in one of the issue's relative importance with respect to the other), the number of political parties declines, as does the overall degree of party fragmentation in the system. Regarding party strategies, we observe that, after the dimensionality reduction, (i) the inert parties tend to improve their performance in terms of party numbers (i.e., more inert parties survive, relatively * Corresponding author. C. García-Díaz, G. Zambrana-Cruz and A. van Witteloostuijn speaking); (ii) the population of large-size seekers declines, (iii) the few large-size seeker survivors, in general, cushion their increased mortality hazard with increased size (i.e., increased number of supporters); and, finally, (iv) the mortality hazard increases with distance to the mean voter spot.

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“…However, this also results in a build-in instability and consequently many coalitions resign before the end of their four-year term. The three main political cleavages are a socio-economic cleavage (left-right), a religious/ethical cleavage (progressive-conservative or secular-religious, the importance of which has decreased during the 1990s), and, since the 2000s, a new cultural cleavage (attitudes towards immigration, integration, and law and order) (Van Holsteyn, Irwin & Den Ridder, 2003).…”

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Super-diversity and urban policies in Amsterdam

Hoekstra¹

2014

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In the Eye of the Beholder: The Perception of the List Pim Fortuyn and the Parliamentary Elections of May 2002

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A double-edged sword! The Dutch centre-right and the ‘foreigners issue’

A double-edged sword! The Dutch centre-right and the ‘foreigners issue’

Political Spaces, Dimensionality Decline and Party Competition

Super-diversity and urban policies in Amsterdam

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