Political Parties and Diaspora: A Case Study of Romanian Parties’ Involvement Abroad

Borz, Gabriela

doi:10.1093/pa/gsaa044

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“…Regarding more specifically the electoral function of parties abroad (Borz, 2020;Jakobson et al, 2020;Kalu & Scarrow, 2020), these new research have started to stress the (non-)mobilizing role of parties in the electoral process (Burgess, 2018;Burgess & Tyburski, 2020;Fliess, 2021;Paarlberg, 2020a), finding that the involvement of homeland parties among emigrants is the most relevant factor in explaining their turnout in homeland elections (Ciornei & Østergaard-Nielsen, 2020). We see some pioneer work on external campaigning by parties abroad that look at the incentives and strategies developed to engage in campaigns abroad, and how parties' organizational structures facilitate or hinder this engagement (Østergaard-Nielsen & Ciornei, 2016;Paarlberg, 2017).…”

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Political Parties Abroad. A New Arena for Electoral Politics

Haute

Kernalegenn²

2023

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This Special Issue contributes to the growing literature on parties abroad. Expansive citizenship has transformed and reinforced the civic and political links between emigrants and their home country. Political parties face the dilemma of engaging or not in this new arena for electoral politics and must consider how. However, until recently the literature on transnationalism and on party politics has surprisingly largely overlooked this issue. This introduction identifies the existing gaps in the literature, and stresses two main questions that remains largely unanswered, namely (1) why and how parties decide to campaign abroad, and(2) how voters abroad are receptive to these campaigns and operate their party choice in this specific context. The five articles offer a mix of case studies and comparative perspective, and quantitative and qualitative analyses. This case selection allows to explore the diversity of strategies adopted by political parties abroad in different settings, with different tools. The results illustrate the impact of local party branches and entrepreneurs' outreach and local campaigns on mobilisation, turnout, and the result of elections, but also show that emigrants' vote choice is influenced both by the context of their country of origin and of their country of residence.

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Political Parties Abroad. A New Arena for Electoral Politics

Haute

Kernalegenn²

2023

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“…Selection and experience effects feed into a third mechanism depressing emigrant support for populism: lack of mobilization. Perceiving emigrants’ opposition, most populists limit their outreach to voters abroad, even as diasporas’ electoral behavior often pivots on such partisan campaigning (Borz, 2020; Burgess, 2018; Burgess and Tyburski, 2020; Ciornei and Østergaard-Nielsen, 2020; Kernalegenn and van Haute, 2020; Østergaard-Nielsen and Ciornei, 2019; Wellman, 2021). To the contrary, some populist parties advocate restricting overseas voting rights (Eggert and Pilati, 2014).…”

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Is populism popular abroad? Evidence from diasporas around the globe

Turcu

Urbatsch

2022

Party Politics

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Populist parties—which typically denounce migrants, globalization, and policy outcomes appreciated by emigrants, and which in turn typically make few efforts to persuade or mobilize expatriate citizens—are likely to see lower vote shares among those voting from abroad. Legislative election results from fifty countries worldwide confirm the hypothesis that more populist parties tend to receive lower shares of out-of-country than of in-country votes: low-populism parties receive roughly the same vote share abroad as they do domestically, while high-populism parties on average receive a third less of the diaspora vote than they do of the domestic vote.

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“…Many of its officials have been prosecuted and convicted on corruption charges. The party acknowledges the diaspora the most in its statute, but the level of online engagement with it is low (Borz 2020). PSD candidates received the lowest number of votes across the diaspora in the 2019 European elections.…”

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