The Impact of Radical Right-Wing Parties in West European Democracies

Williams, Michelle

doi:10.1057/9781403983466

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“…For some reason, however, most of those who have dealt with the issue of party impact have chosen to look, as it were, down the wrong (or at least the other) end of the telescopeat the putative influence of 'fringe' or 'extremist' parties rather than that more 5 obviously exercised by the 'mainstream' parties which by and large have kept them, and continue to keep them, out of government. Clearly, the issue of whether these smaller parties have -often indirectly -influenced public policy on immigration and integration is both interesting and important, as a number of stimulating studies, both recent (Schain, 2006, Williams, 2006, and Triadafilopoulos and Zaslove, 2006 and slightly older (Minkenberg, 2002), have demonstrated.…”

Section: Why (Mainstream Centre-right) Parties Mattermentioning

confidence: 99%

Turning round the telescope. Centre-right parties and immigration and integration policy in Europe1

Bale¹

2008

Journal of European Public Policy

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A recent 'state of the art' review of the political science literature on migration notes that myriad studies 'have provided evidence that a range of actors influence policy outcomes. They include organised interest groups, courts, ethnic groups, trade unions, law and order bureaucracies, police and security agencies, local actors and street-level bureaucrats and private actors ' (Lahav and Guiraudon, 2006: 207).Missing from the list (although, to be fair, they later make a brief appearance in a table as 'conduits of public opinion') are organisations that one might have expected to have had some say in the matter. Their absence, however, is not unusual even if it is curious: as a contribution to one recent edited collection puts it, 'political parties have received relatively short shrift among students of the politics of migration'; they 'enter the story as minor characters with undefined roles' (Triadafilopoulos and Zaslove, 2006: 171, 176) This is almost certainly because, with a handful of exceptions

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Section: Why (Mainstream Centre-right) Parties Mattermentioning

confidence: 99%

Turning round the telescope. Centre-right parties and immigration and integration policy in Europe1

Bale¹

2008

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…More importantly, recent studies proposing causal models to explain the success of radical parties 98 seem one-dimensional when confronted with other political actors. Other studies aimed at measuring the impact of radical parties mistake correlation for causality, 99 putting forward quite a tautological argument, i.e., that the increase in anti-immigrant sentiment proves that right-wing parties have played a part in fueling these negative feelings. In her study, Michelle Williams entirely ignores the possibility of a bottom-up impetus or a dynamic of supply meeting demand.…”

Section: Migration Crisis As the Catalyst Of Societal Insecuritymentioning

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Festung Europa: Securitization of Migration and Radicalization of European Societies

Bartoszewicz

2017

Auc Studia Territorialia

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Europe is undoubtedly changing into Festung Europa -Fortress Europe. While its external boundaries are daily traversed by hundreds of migrants and refugees, its heretofore invisible internal borders have begun to sprout barbed wires, barriers and armed patrols. This paper analyzes the problem of migration and the ongoing European migration crisis through the lens of societal insecurity, arguing that the trend toward radicalization of European societies and electoral politics is one the most volatile ramifications of securitized migration. The European migration crisis has led to a societal security dilemma resulting in a growing chasm between the political elites in member states of the European Union and their societies. The radicalization of those societies is visible in the rising popularity of anti-establishment (populist) parties, the push for direct democracy (demonstrations, manifestations, referenda), and the attractiveness of vigilante groups. Where the state responds to this trend, culture becomes a security policy and "immiskepticism" is the default approach. If it does not respond, society either looks for new political representatives or takes matters into its own hands, sometimes resorting to violence. While the former trend is more visible in the Eastern part of the European Union, the latter is more typical of its Western part.

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“…Radical right parties have been part of national governments in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland allowing them direct influence on government policy (Art, 2011). Even if radical right parties are not part of the government, these niche parties can influence the political debates and agendas of other political parties around them (Meguid, 2005(Meguid, , 2008Williams, 2006;Howard, 2009;Van Spanje, 2010). Other political parties can either adopt an accommodative strategy or adversarial strategy to radical right parties (Meguid, 2005(Meguid, , 2008.…”

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The demand side of support for radical right parties

Kehrberg

2014

Comp Eur Polit

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This study examines the link between individual attitudes and voting for radical right parties in 16 European countries, using the European Social Survey (ESS). This study includes, in a single model, several different components of the radical right political platform in order to test which components are more strongly found among radical right voters. Using the initial assumption that the anti-immigrant message of radical right parties should be attractive to individuals with similar predispositions, I use the ESS to find evidence that radical right voters are attracted to these parties because of the political message of immigration attitudes and anti-democratic attitudes. Further, depending on the context, social conservatism is associated with radical right support. In sum, radical right support is based on multiple factors with immigration attitudes as the primary consideration, with populism and social conservatism playing a minor but significant role.

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The Impact of Radical Right-Wing Parties in West European Democracies

Cited by 129 publications

References 25 publications

Turning round the telescope. Centre-right parties and immigration and integration policy in Europe1

Turning round the telescope. Centre-right parties and immigration and integration policy in Europe1

Festung Europa: Securitization of Migration and Radicalization of European Societies

The demand side of support for radical right parties

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