scholarly journals Economic conditions and populist radical right voting: The role of issue salience

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 102416
Author(s):  
Take Sipma ◽  
Carl C. Berning
Keyword(s):  
Radical Right ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Issue Salience ◽  
Populist Radical Right

scholarly journals Exploring Gender Differences in Support for Rightist Parties: The Role of Party and Gender Ideology

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 80-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosie Campbell ◽  
Silvia Erzeel
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Populist Radical Right ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Right

This contribution to the Special Issue on Gender and Conservatism uses expert and election surveys to explore the extent to which the feminist or traditional gender ideology of parties of the right relates to their economic and liberal/authoritarian ideology. We show that although parties of the left generally espouse more feminist ideologies than parties of the right, there are a significant number of rightist parties in Western Europe that combine laissez-faire economic values with liberal feminist ideals. That said, there is more homogeneity among parties of the populist radical right than rightist parties more generally. We find that despite some variation in their gender ideology, parties of the populist radical right overwhelmingly—with the exception of one party in the Netherlands—continue to adopt traditional or antifeminist gender ideologies. In terms of attracting women voters, we find that rightist parties who adopt a feminist gender ideology are able to attract more women voters than other parties of the right. We detect several examples of center-right parties that include feminist elements in their gender ideologies and are able to win over larger proportions of women voters than rightist parties that fail to adopt feminist positions.

scholarly journals Contextual Effects on Populist Radical Right Support: Consensual Neighbourhood Effects and the Dutch PVV

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-238
Author(s):  
Daniël van Wijk ◽  
Gideon Bolt ◽  
Ron Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Effects ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Neighbourhood Effects ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Populist Radical Right ◽  
Political Views

Abstract This study examines contextual effects on support for the Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV), a Dutch populist radical right-wing party. It examines the two most frequently researched contextual effects, that of the local ethnic composition and of local economic conditions. Furthermore, it investigates the effect of the local normative context, through which people are hypothesised to be influenced by their neighbours' political views. Analysing survey data from The Netherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study using multilevel logistic regression, no effects are found for the local ethnic composition and local economic conditions after controlling for individual characteristics. In addition, PVV support is much lower in districts with higher shares of highly educated residents, which is in line with theories on consensual neighbourhood effects. This effect is found to be non-linear and only turns negative when around 25 per cent of the population of a district is highly educated. Additional analyses show that contact with neighbours, which is often assumed to explain this effect, is not a prerequisite for the effect to occur.

Roles of Social Scientists in Crisis Media Reporting: The Case of the German Populist Radical Right Movement PEGIDA

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birte Fähnrich ◽  
Corinna Lüthje
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
Populist Radical Right ◽  
The Media ◽  
German Newspapers

This article examines the visibility of social scientists in the context of crisis media reporting by using the example of the German populist radical right movement PEGIDA. Based on previous research, a role typology was developed to serve as a framework for the empirical study. A content analysis of German newspapers demonstrates that social scientists are quite visible in the media coverage of PEGIDA and are presented mainly in the role of intellectuals. At the same time, new roles for social scientists are also discernible. Based on these findings, an extended role typology was developed to provide points of reference for further research.

scholarly journals The Role of Implicit Attitudes in Populist Radical-Right Support

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Bos ◽  
Penelope Sheets ◽  
Hajo G. Boomgaarden
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Attitudes ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Populist Radical Right

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

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Meyer ◽  
Sieglinde Rosenberger
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Issue Salience ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Radical Right Parties ◽  
Immigration Issue ◽  
Media Data ◽  
Subordinate Role

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.

scholarly journals Local David Versus Global Goliath: Populist Parties and the Decline of Progressive Politics in Italy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-85
Author(s):  
Matteo Cavallaro
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Populist Radical Right ◽  
Radical Right Parties

This paper analyzes the role of local spending, particularly on social welfare, and local inequality as factors in the Italian political crisis following the adoption in 2011 of more radical national austerity measures. We employ two different methods. First, we develop an original database of municipal budgets. There we show that even the lowest level of social welfare spending, that offered by Italian municipalities, though also hit by austerity, was still able to moderate this national shock. We test three operationalizations of local spending: aggregate current expenditures, aggregate current expenditures on social services, and current expenditures disaggregated by function. We show that municipal current expenditures, particularly on social spending, significantly affected the post-2011 share of votes for the progressive coalition. The results also show that social spending, especially on education, significantly moderated the combined effect of national austerity and the economic crisis on voting for populist radical right parties, while no significant results appeared for populist parties in general. Local inequality appears to significantly enhance vote shares of populist radical right parties and populist parties in general. We caution that, although significant, the effect is not strong: that local policy and economic conditions can moderate national shocks but cannot reverse them. The second analysis relies on survey data to ascertain the individual-level mechanisms behind the role of local welfare. The paper argues that local economic inputs influence voters’ position on non-economic issues. Our results, however, do not identify any significant individual-level channel of transmission, be it cultural or economic.

scholarly journals Immigrant, Nationalist and Proud: A Twitter Analysis of Indian Diaspora Supporters for Brexit and Trump

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eviane Cheng Leidig
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Populist Radical Right ◽  
The Us ◽  
Twitter Analysis ◽  
Multiple Levels

The Brexit referendum to leave the EU and Trump’s success in the US general election in 2016 sparked new waves of discussion on nativism, nationalism, and the far right. Within these analyses, however, very little attention has been devoted towards exploring the transnational ideological circulation of Islamophobia and anti-establishment sentiment, especially amongst diaspora and migrant networks. This article thus explores the role of the Indian diaspora as mediators in populist radical right discourse in the West. During the Brexit referendum and Trump’s election and presidency, a number of Indian diaspora voices took to Twitter to express pro-Brexit and pro-Trump views. This article presents a year-long qualitative study of these users. It highlights how these diasporic Indians interact and engage on Twitter in order to signal belonging on multiple levels: as individuals, as an imaginary collective non-Muslim diaspora, and as members of (populist radical right) Twitter society. By analysing these users’ social media performativity, we obtain insight into how social media spaces may help construct ethnic and (trans)national identities according to boundaries of inclusion/exclusion. This article demonstrates how some Indian diaspora individuals are embedded into exclusivist national political agendas of the populist radical right in Western societies.

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