The impact of Populist Radical Right Parties on socio-economic policies

Röth, Leonce; Afonso, Alexandre; Spies, Dennis C.

doi:10.1017/s1755773917000133

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“…Finally, demand-side insights emphasized here can be linked to supply, both in terms of far right party strategies and in terms of other parties such as those on the centre-right that also draw on the increasing salience of immigration. Indeed, our article has briefly discussed some conclusions from recent literature, which show that far right parties focus increasingly on social welfare (Afonso and Papadopoulos, 2015;Afonso and Rennwald, 2017;Röth et al, 2018;Halikiopoulou and Vlandas, 2019), in order to appeal to those voters with economic concerns, thus complementing our findings. The field would benefit significantly from more mixed-methods approaches that focus on the complementarity between demand and supply-side dynamics and the ways in which multiple and overlapping societal grievances are targeted by far right parties.…”

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confidence: 63%

When economic and cultural interests align: the anti-immigration voter coalitions driving far right party success in Europe

Halikiopoulou

Vlandas

2020

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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This article contests the view that the strong positive correlation between anti-immigration attitudes and far right party success necessarily constitutes evidence in support of the cultural grievance thesis. We argue that the success of far right parties depends on their ability to mobilize a coalition of interests between their core supporters, that is voters with cultural grievances over immigration and the often larger group of voters with economic grievances over immigration. Using individual level data from eight rounds of the European Social Survey, our empirical analysis shows that while cultural concerns over immigration are a stronger predictor of far right party support, those who are concerned with the impact of immigration on the economy are important to the far right in numerical terms. Taken together, our findings suggest that economic grievances over immigration remain pivotal within the context of the transnational cleavage.

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confidence: 63%

When economic and cultural interests align: the anti-immigration voter coalitions driving far right party success in Europe

Halikiopoulou

Vlandas

2020

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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“…We also wish to inform the literature on the supply-side of parties' policy positions and strategies by characterizing the attitude of the radical right towards the labour movement and describing (in a more explicit way than previous research) why the political offers of these two movements are in competition. 2 By doing so, the article particularly strengthens the literature dealing with the socio-economic agenda of the radical right (e.g., Afonso, 2015;Afonso and Rennwald, 2018;De Lange, 2007;Röth et al, 2017).…”

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The radical right, the labour movement and the competition for the workers’ vote

Mosimann

Rennwald

Zimmermann

2018

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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This article analyses the capacity of radical right parties to attract support from union members in recent elections in Western Europe. It is argued that unionized voters resist the appeals of the radical right better than non-union members. Using data from the European Social Survey 2010-2016, the article shows that union members are overall less likely to vote for the radical right than non-union members. Even though it is found that unionized working-class and middle-class voters are less likely to vote radical right than their non-unionized peers in the pooled sample, it is also observed that these subgroups of unionized voters and especially unionized working-class voters are not immune to radical right voting in all the countries analysed. The article thus indicates a growing capacity of the radical right to attract unionized working-class segments of the electorate in some countries and to directly compete with left parties for these voters.

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“…More recently, radical right parties have combined their traditional nativism with an interventionist economic agenda (Roth et al. 2017). Despite initially supporting economic liberalism and espousing deregulatory beliefs in the 1980s and 1990s (Kitschelt 1997), over the last decade these parties have gradually adopted a domestic economic agenda focused on government spending to expand public services for natives (Schumacher & Kersbergen 2014) and have incorporated protectionist economic positions in their platforms (Roth et al.…”

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Local labour market competition and radical right voting: Evidence from France

Bolet

2020

European J Political Res

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How do the economic effects of immigration affect radical right support? The evidence in support of the labour market competition theory-which posits that the economic threat posed by immigration to jobs and wages leads to radical right voting-has been mixed. On the one hand, individual-level surveys underreport economic drivers because of social desirability bias. On the other hand, contextual studies show contradictory findings due to an over-reliance on units of analysis that are too aggregated to meaningfully capture the competitive threat posed by immigrants. This paper identifies the influence of labour market competition on radical right voting at a local level in contexts where native workers are directly affected by the arrival of immigrants who have similar or higher skillsets. Using an original longitudinal dataset of fine-grained municipal electoral, demographic and economic data from France over the 2002-2017 period, the paper provides empirical evidence of local contextual influences of economic competition between natives and immigrants of any skillset. Under local conditions of material deprivation, measured by the local unemployment rate, the effect of labour market competition on municipalities' radical right vote share is amplified. Moreover, higher radical right support is observed in municipalities with a higher share of any one of the following groups: low-skilled natives, medium-skilled immigrants or high-skilled immigrants. This supports the hypothesis that immigrants with higher qualifications are compelled to accept lower-skilled jobs, and are thus perceived as a competitive threat to low-skilled natives. By reconciling radical right contextual studies and research on the political economy of immigration policies, this paper highlights the importance of a local analysis in detecting the effect of labour market competition on radical right support. This paper also explains why some local areas are more prone to radical right support than others over time.

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The impact of Populist Radical Right Parties on socio-economic policies

Cited by 126 publications

References 72 publications

When economic and cultural interests align: the anti-immigration voter coalitions driving far right party success in Europe

When economic and cultural interests align: the anti-immigration voter coalitions driving far right party success in Europe

The radical right, the labour movement and the competition for the workers’ vote

Local labour market competition and radical right voting: Evidence from France

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