Cleavage Theory

Marks, Gary; Attewell, David; Rovný, Jan; Hooghe, Liesbet

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-51791-5_9

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“…To understand how the party systems were affected by globalization, I coded parties as one of four types: extreme right, center right, center left, and extreme left. Scholars have used various classification schemes to group party by policy preferences either through scoring parties along a left-right dimension (Benoit & Laver, 2007; Castles & Mair, 1984; Huber & Inglehart, 1995), broad classification groups (e.g., Christian-Democratic, Socialist) (Hix, 2003), or various policy dimensions scored by either area experts (Hooghe & Marks, 2018; Kriesi et al, 2006; Marks et al, 2017) or found in political party manifestos (Benoit & Laver, 2007). In the populism-specific literature, researchers have devised a further set of classifications but many only investigate one particular party family (e.g., extreme right parties) or a brief time-period.…”

Section: Regional Level Empirical Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Extreme Right

Milner

2021

Comparative Political Studies

103

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What are the political consequences of economic globalization? Since the 1990s, scholars of European party politics have noted the rise of extremist parties, especially right-wing populist ones, and the decline of mainstream left and right parties. This paper focuses on the association between globalization in terms of trade, capital and labor flows, technological change, and popular support for extreme right parties. I examine these relations at the regional and individual level in 15 advanced industrial democracies in Western Europe from 1990 to 2018. Globalization, especially in the form of trade, is associated with growing vote shares for extreme right parties. Technological change in the form of automation increases support for extreme right parties. The financial crisis enhanced support for populist right parties and strengthened the negative relationship between trade shocks and declining support for mainstream left parties. And the use of social welfare compensation seems unable to dampen these political trends.1

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Section: Regional Level Empirical Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Extreme Right

Milner

2021

Comparative Political Studies

103

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“…The most significant cleavages identified by scholars of party politics bear little direct relevance to questions of sovereignty. They include ideologies of left and right, urban versus rural communities and confessional conflicts within established religions (Lipset and Rokkan 1967 ).s The same applies to more recent work on electoral and social cleavages (Marks et al 2021 ) and to the much-documented rise of identity politics and associated ‘culture wars’ (e.g. Fukuyama 2019 ).…”

Section: Conceptualizing Conflicts Of Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 95%

Conflicts of sovereignty in contemporary Europe: a framework of analysis

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Contemporary conflicts of sovereignty in Europe have gone beyond the clash between national and supranational sovereignty. Sovereignty conflicts are increasingly occurring within member states. This paper develops a conceptual framework that distinguishes between foundational, institutional and territorial conflicts of sovereignty, elaborating on this taxonomy with reference to the historical evolution of the concept of sovereignty in Europe. It provides an account of why we have seen a proliferation in conflicts of sovereignty within European states. This is due in part to the notion of “shared” sovereignty. Central to European integration, this notion has introduced considerable institutional indeterminacy into the political systems of member states, leading to many of the institutional conflicts of sovereignty we see in Europe today. The struggle of national party systems to institutionalize societal conflict via partisan competition is another contributory factor. This has displaced conflict onto the terrain of how popular rule is institutionalized within the national state. In developing this framework, the paper provides a method for distinguishing between political conflicts tout court and those touching specifically upon sovereignty. Moreover, the framework helps us distinguish between those conflicts of sovereignty most destabilizing for a polity and those which are less so.

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“…Imprinting is defined as a process in which an organization absorbs characteristics present in its environment—that is, the traditional and newer political cleavages that a political party is expected to address such as the GAL‐TAN, climate, social justice, and more (Marks et al, 2021). The imprinting process occurs during sensitive periods , when the organization during limited time periods is vulnerable to the impact of shock and changes to its environment and must formulate a response to relevant cleavages.…”

Section: A Model Of Populist Party Imprintingmentioning

confidence: 99%

From exclusion to establishment: Organizational birthmarks and imprinting within populist parties

Andersen,

Trondal

2024

Scand Pol Stud

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This paper bridges literature on political parties and organizational studies by providing a new theoretical lens on political party developments. There has been growing scholarly interest in populist parties and the issues that serve as the raison d'être for their political platform. While the literature has been preoccupied with the journey of the anti‐hero rising to power, less has been written about the organization of the party once it has transcended to political influence. Likewise, whereas organizational birthmarks and imprinting have been integral concepts in the study of organizations, there has been little permeation of the concepts into the study of political parties. The Danish People's Party and Norwegian Progress Party provide two illustrative cases, showing that their original formation and later transformation into the current parties brought with it challenges to their structure and ideology. Our findings show that while an increase in external support to the political party, that is, votes, imprints organizational birthmarks, it is during a decrease in the very same external support that organizational birthmarks are uncovered and challenged. Through process‐tracing and our theoretical model, we identify organizational birthmarks and causal mechanisms in which competing organizational birthmarks create an internal division within the political party.

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Cleavage Theory

Cited by 59 publications

References 45 publications

Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Extreme Right

Voting for Populism in Europe: Globalization, Technological Change, and the Extreme Right

Conflicts of sovereignty in contemporary Europe: a framework of analysis

From exclusion to establishment: Organizational birthmarks and imprinting within populist parties

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