The radical right in public office: Agenda‐setting and policy effects

Minkenberg, Michael

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“…Some of them experienced electoral triumphs, such as the Lijst Pim Fortuyn (LPF) in the 2002 elections in the Netherlands, the Swiss People's Party (SVP), which became the strongest party in 1999, or the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) winning 27 per cent in the 1999 elections and becoming part of a coalition government as a result, which was widely interpreted as the crossing of a border-line (cf., Minkenberg, 2001). Meanwhile, various parties from the populist or radical right camp, like the LPF (2002) and Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) (2010) in the Netherlands, also succeeded in office-seeking.…”

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“…Third, there is substantial evidence for a tightening of immigration policies (cf., Givens & Luedtke, 2005). Some scholars view this as a consequence of the radical right parties' participation in governing coalitions or as mainstream governing parties' response to the former's electoral success (cf., Minkenberg, 2001;Schain, 2006). These observations, finally, cause both academics and political commentators to claim an overall swing to the right (Rechtsruck, Verrechtsing) in European democracies (cf., Westin, 2003).…”

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Just a Shadow? The Role of Radical Right Parties in the Politicization of Immigration, 1995–2009

Meyer

Rosenberger

2015

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The paper explores the role of radical right parties in the politicization of immigration. In scholarly literature, radical right parties are viewed as the owners of the immigration issue and as drivers of its politicization. Against this prevalent view, we argue that the significance of radical right parties in politicizing immigration is overrated: (1) Radical right parties only play a subordinate role in the politicization of immigration, whereas the contribution of mainstream parties to raising issue salience has been underestimated; (2) the politicization of immigration is not related to radical right strength in the party system. The findings are based on media data from a comparative project on public claims-making on immigration in Western European countries (SOM, Support and Opposition to Migration). We discuss our findings in comparison to the relevant literature and suggest avenues for further research.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Just a Shadow? The Role of Radical Right Parties in the Politicization of Immigration, 1995–2009

Meyer

Rosenberger

2015

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“…There is strong empirical evidence that the adversarial strategy increases support for the niche party, mainly by enhancing voters' attention to the challenging party's main issue, thereby increasing the possibility of politicizing it and gaining from it electorally. It is also widely argued that the policy convergence between mainstream parties that might follow from the adversarial strategy, creates advantageous political opportunity structures for the new party (Kitschelt 1995, Minkenberg 2001, Arzheimer & Carter 2006, Meguid 2008, Schumacher & Van Kersbergen 2016.…”

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Voices from the far right: a text analysis of Swedish parliamentary debates

Magnusson¹,

Öhrvall²,

Barrling³

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In this paper we study the effects of a radical right party entering a national parliament, on the parliament discourse. We follow the classification developed by Meguid (2008) and use a probabilistic topic model approach to analyze the 300,000 speeches delivered in the Swedish parliament between 1994 and 2017. Our results indicate that immigration became a more prevalent topic in party leader debates when the Sweden Democrats entered the parliament in 2010. The other parties started to address immigration more, but still not to the extent that the Sweden Democrats did. In 2015, as Sweden faced a migration crisis, immigration became a more salient issue in the parliamentary debates. This could be seen as an external shock that forced the mainstream parties to put more emphasis on the topic of immigration. We conclude that the mainstream parties used a partly dismissive, partly adversarial strategy in their speeches when the SD entered the parliament. The migration crises in 2015 made them focus more on immigration and they thereby adopted a more adversarial strategy.

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“…Austria dropped out of what Washington's new focus on post-Communist "Central Europe" (formerly Communist "Eastern Europe") -"the newly independent nations, wanting to rejoin the West quickly." 55 NATO accession became the fast track for them to join "the 53. Moser, Bewegte Zeiten, p. 102.…”

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“…Unlike Mock, he was a neophyte without a vision -always giving priority to domestic affairs, he left Austrian foreign policy frequently isolated and "standing alone", see Heinisch, "Unremarkably Remarkable," 123f, 131ff, 148f, 150; for the opposite view, see the Plassnik essay in this volume. 55. When Richard Holbrooke became Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (EUR)in the summer of 1994, he reorganized the European Bureau's Central European division to reflect "the new emphasis we wished to place on that region."…”

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Austria's International Position after the End of the Cold War

Bischof¹,

Karlhofer²

2013

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The radical right in public office: Agenda‐setting and policy effects

Cited by 241 publications

References 8 publications

Just a Shadow? The Role of Radical Right Parties in the Politicization of Immigration, 1995–2009

Just a Shadow? The Role of Radical Right Parties in the Politicization of Immigration, 1995–2009

Voices from the far right: a text analysis of Swedish parliamentary debates

Austria's International Position after the End of the Cold War

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