Political websites during the 1998 Parliamentary Elections in the Netherlands

The article examines the results of the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, held on March 15-17, 2021. It compares the results of the leading political parties in the elections of 2017 and 2021, and describes all the leading Dutch political parties that were represented in parliament in the period from 2017 to 2021. The results of the activities of the government headed by the leader of the “People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy” M. Rutte, formed following the results of the 2017 elections, are presented. The reasons for the resignation of this government, which took place on the eve of the elections, and its impact on the course of the election campaign are revealed. It was noted how the coronavirus pandemic and the government’s actions to overcome its consequences affected the course and results of the election campaign. The activity of the main opposition parties in this country is evaluated: the right-wing Eurosceptic Freedom Party of Wilders, the center-left Labor Party and others. The course of the election campaign and its main topics, as well as the new political parties that were elected to the parliament as a result of these elections, are considered. The positions of the country’s leading political parties on their possible participation in the new government coalition are shown. The state of Russian-Dutch relations is analyzed. A forecast is given of how the election results will affect the formation of the new government of this country and the political, trade and economic relations between Russia and the Netherlands.

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New kids on the ballot: The party-level determinants of new party success

Party Politics ◽

10.1177/1354068820966573 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 135406882096657

Author(s):

Rein Wieringa ◽

Maurits J Meijers

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Selection Bias ◽

Party Systems ◽

Party Competition ◽

Quality Data ◽

New Parties ◽

Parliamentary Elections ◽

Institutional Level ◽

Party Organizations

New parties can shake up party systems by advancing new issues, influencing established competitors and affecting the dynamics of party competition. However, which kinds of new parties are successful? While the literature has extensively focused on institutional-level and election-level drivers of new party success, the literature on party-level determinants of new party success is scarce. As most studies on new party success focus on party entry at the election level or on new party survival, we argue that these studies suffer from selection bias as they do not leverage information on unsuccessful parties. This is understandable, since quality data on unsuccessful parties’ vote shares, party organizations and ideological characteristics are scant. To overcome this limitation, we examine the party-level determinants of new party success in the Netherlands, including all parties that have participated in national parliamentary elections since 1946. Our findings have important implications for the study of new parties in modern democracies.

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The 2002 and 2003 parliamentary elections in The Netherlands

Electoral Studies ◽

10.1016/s0261-3794(03)00108-2 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

G IRWIN

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Parliamentary Elections

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Conclusions

The Politics of Social Media Manipulation ◽

10.5117/9789463724838_ch08 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Richard Rogers ◽

Sabine Niederer

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Social Issues ◽

Advocacy Groups ◽

Political Leaders ◽

Parliamentary Elections ◽

Social Media Platform ◽

News Organizations ◽

Media Platform ◽

Media Monitoring

To what extent do (foreign) disinformation and so-called fake news resonate in political spaces online within social media around the 2019 provincial elections and the European parliamentary elections in the Netherlands? We found no foreign disinformation, fake advocacy groups or imposter news organizations, but we did take notice of a polarised media landscape, where problematic information, including extreme content, is engaged with (liked, shared, retweeted, etc.) or returned in search engines when querying political parties, political leaders as well as social issues. The study ultimately recommends media training as well as disengagement with extreme content, together with a call for continued access to social media platform data for media monitoring purposes.

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Oswajanie populizmu. Scena polityczna Królestwa Niderlandów po 2015 roku

Studia Polityczne ◽

10.35757/stp.2020.48.1.06 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 125-144

Author(s):

Ryszard Żelichowski

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Political System ◽

The Political ◽

Right Wing ◽

Parliamentary Elections ◽

Mass Influx ◽

Migration Crisis ◽

New Generation ◽

Political Scene

The mass influx of immigrants to Europe in 2015 shook the foundations of the political system of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The concept of populism dominated the political discourse related to various concepts of how to solve this problem. After the death of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, two politicians using harsh anti-immigrant rhetoric and murdered by Islamic fanatics, a new generation of right-wing populist activists appeared on the political scene of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Two of them, Geert Wilders and Thierry Baudet, run their own political parties and are increasingly successful. The Freedom Party of Geert Wilders became the second strongest party in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Forum for Democracy party founded by Thierry Baudet won two seats in the Second Chamber of Parliament in the 2017 election.The author of this article focuses on both these politicians and their party programmes. He argues that the culmination of populism in Europe, which fell between the peak of the 2015 migration crisis and the 2017 parliamentary elections, has changed the attitude of leading politicians to this concept. Populism has been ‘permanently’ appearing in salons. The thesis of ‘good’ populism, proclaimed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, indicates its inclusion in the arsenal of political means also used by liberals to defend a democratic order.

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Polityka w cieniu koronawirusa

Politeja ◽

10.12797/politeja.18.2021.75.06 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (6(75)) ◽

pp. 119-142

Author(s):

Ryszard Żelichowski

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Parliamentary Election ◽

The European Union ◽

Parliamentary Elections ◽

People's Party ◽

Child Benefits ◽

History Of ◽

Post War ◽

Ruling Party

Politics in the Shadow of COVID-19: Parliamentary Election in the Kingdom of the Netherlands On March 15-17, 2021, the first parliamentary elections in the European Union during the pandemic took place in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The political authorities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands decided to hold the elections despite severe sanitary restrictions and curfew. On January 15, 2021, the outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, chairman of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), handed over the resignation of the entire government to the King. The immediate cause was the report of the parliamentary investigative commission announced in December 2020 on the extremely restrictive operation of local tax offices in connection with government child benefits. Mark Rutte has been running the country efficiently since 2010 and was also a favorite in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The elections were conducted without any disturbances. 37 parties were admitted to elections, the largest number in the post-war history of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The election winners were ruling party VVD party and progressive liberals from D’66. The discussion on the formation of the new government has already started and is accompanied by great emotions. It is going to be a long period of negotiations and their results are difficult to be predicted. The article presents the main actors of this parliamentary game.

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Migrant votes ‘here’ and ‘there’: Transnational electoral behavior of Turks in the Netherlands

Migration Studies ◽

10.1093/migration/mnz034 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Liza Mügge ◽

Maria Kranendonk ◽

Floris Vermeulen ◽

Nermin Aydemir

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Voting Behavior ◽

Political Attitudes ◽

Political Trust ◽

Labor Migrants ◽

Trade Off ◽

Parliamentary Elections ◽

Party Choice ◽

And Behavior ◽

Attitudes And Behavior

Abstract Whether there is a trade-off between ‘here’ (country of settlement) and ‘there’ (the country of origin) is one of the key political questions and concerns regarding political attitudes and behaviors of immigrant minorities. We take this issue by the horns and study three components of political attitudes and behavior within a transnational framework among Dutch-Turkish citizens in the Netherlands: turnout, political trust and interest, and party choice. The empirical data draws on original exit polls held during the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections at a polling station in 2014 (n = 791) and in 2015 (n = 456). We find that that gender and country of birth influence electoral participation; social class (working class background as labor migrants) influences voting behavior. While there is a trade-off for political trust and voting behavior, there is no trade-off for political interest. These findings call for a more nuanced approach to transnational political behavior that is attentive to processes of convergence between ‘here’ and ‘there’ and the diversity within migrant groups.

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