Reviewing the relationship between social policy and the contemporary populist radical right: welfare chauvinism, welfare nation state and social citizenship

Ketola, Markus; Nordensvärd, Johan

doi:10.1080/21699763.2018.1521863

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“…Accordingly, we qualitatively assess the congruence of an assumed typical case, Hungarian social policy between 2010 and 2018 with theoretical expectations deduced from the ideal type. Post-2010 Hungary is a genuine case of populist governance (Batory, 2016;Jenne & Mudde, 2012) and social policy is a particularly suitable area to study populist policy making as populist leaders tend to reframe social policy measures to build their power regime (Ketola & Nordensvard, 2018). Welfare policy outcomes directly affect the majority of people, thus playing a crucial role in boosting majoritarian support of the elec-torate.…”

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When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

Bartha

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Szikra

2020

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The rise of populist governance throughout the world offers a novel opportunity to study the way in which populist leaders and parties rule. This article conceptualises populist policy making by theoretically addressing the substantive and discursive components of populist policies and the decision-making processes of populist governments. It first reconstructs the implicit ideal type of policy making in liberal democracies based on the mainstream governance and policy making scholarship. Then, taking stock of the recent populism literature, the article elaborates an ideal type of populist policy making along the dimensions of content, procedures and discourses. As an empirical illustration we apply a qualitative congruence analysis to assess the conformity of a genuine case of populist governance, social policy in post-2010 Hungary with the populist policy making ideal type. Concerning the policy content, the article argues that policy heterodoxy, strong willingness to adopt paradigmatic reforms and an excessive responsiveness to majoritarian preferences are distinguishing features of any type of populist policies. Regarding the procedural features populist leaders tend to downplay the role of technocratic expertise, sideline veto-players and implement fast and unpredictable policy changes. Discursively, populist leaders tend to extensively use crisis frames and discursive governance instruments in a Manichean language and a saliently emotional manner that reinforces polarisation in policy positions. Finally, the article suggests that policy making patterns in Hungarian social policy between 2010 and 2018 have been largely congruent with the ideal type of populist policy making.

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When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

Bartha

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Szikra

2020

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“…In fact, the centrality of nativism is such that it colours almost all other aspects of the radical right's policy platform. In the realm of social policy, this implies that welfare chauvinism is a crucial characteristic (Ketola and Nordensvard 2018;Norocel 2016). Welfare chauvinism can be best understood as the application of nativism to social policy.…”

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The impact of radical right parties on family benefits

Ennser‐Jedenastik

2021

West European Politics

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Radical right parties have gained access to government across Europe, yet scholarly work on how they shape welfare states remains scarce. Therefore, this article examines how radical right parties affect family benefits. Combining pro-natalist views with a commitment to traditional gender roles, these parties seek to support family incomes without altering the traditional intra-family division of labour. Radical right governance should therefore correlate positively with spending on family allowances, but negatively with childcare expenditures. However, generous family allowances may become less attractive and childcare spending more attractive to the radical right as immigrant populations increase. An analysis of 26 European countries between 1980 and 2015 shows a negative, yet noisy, effect of the radical right on childcare expenditures. By contrast, effects on family allowances are negligible. Further analysis also uncovers that radical right governance is associated with larger gaps between spending on family allowances and spending on childcare. KEYWORDS Radical right; welfare state; family benefits; gender Radical right parties have been the most successful new entrants into European party politics during the past decades (Mudde 2013). Not only have they made significant electoral gains and thus restructured the political landscape in Europe (Oesch and Rennwald 2018), they have also propelled their mainstream competitors to shift their issue agenda markedly to the right (Abou-Chadi and Krause 2020;Bale et al. 2010). In a growing number of countries, radical right parties have entered government office, thus obtaining political positions to shape public policy directly.Still, the number of studies on the radical right's policy impact is tiny in comparison with work on its electoral performance or ideological

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“…Tis group includes the British Conservative and Unionist Party but, above all, some reactionary or nationalist parties, such as Law and Justice (PiS) in Poland and the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) in the Czech Republic, or even Far-Right Parties, such as the Danish People's Party (DF), the Swedish Democrats (SD) and the True Finns Party (PerusS). In recent times, party leader Bart De Wever has semantically borrowed from two schemes and paths followed by several Radical Right-Wing Parties, namely Welfare Chauvinism(Ketola & Nordensvard, 2018;de Koster, Achterberg, & van der Waal, 2013); and wiggling the scarecrow of the alleged promotion of open borders by left-wing parties. "True" nationals must be the sole beneficiaries of Social security benefits, which can only be perpetuated within this strict configuration, or else disappear 2 .…”

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Radical Right-Wing Parties Facing the Wall of the <i>Local</i>? The Vlaams Belang and Local Elections (1982-2018)

Delwit¹

2019

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Many radical right-wing parties have marked significant growth in the last 20 years. This spectacular dynamic has received thorough attention from the scientific community. Their electoral performance has most often been analysed at a national level. Analysis at sub-national levels is rare. This paper analyses the performance of the Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) in local elections in Belgium between 1982 and 2018. Our analysis shows that the Vlaams Belang was able to overcome all institutional and political barriers in order to compete successfully at this level. At the same time, we find that the institutionalisation process at the local level is not a predictor of the ensuing electoral result for the party. On the contrary, the local electoral result correlates to the national curve and the global image of the party. In this dynamics, local elections could lead to different outcomes for the Vlaams Belang. The 1988 and 2018 local elections paved the way to a larger political development. On the contrary, the 2006 local elections led to a sharp political and electoral decline.

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Reviewing the relationship between social policy and the contemporary populist radical right: welfare chauvinism, welfare nation state and social citizenship

Cited by 21 publications

References 74 publications

When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

The impact of radical right parties on family benefits

Radical Right-Wing Parties Facing the Wall of the <i>Local</i>? The Vlaams Belang and Local Elections (1982-2018)

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Reviewing the relationship between social policy and the contemporary populist radical right: welfare chauvinism, welfare nation state and social citizenship

Cited by 21 publications

References 74 publications

When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

The impact of radical right parties on family benefits

Radical Right-Wing Parties Facing the Wall of the &lt;i&gt;Local&lt;/i&gt;? The Vlaams Belang and Local Elections (1982-2018)

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Radical Right-Wing Parties Facing the Wall of the <i>Local</i>? The Vlaams Belang and Local Elections (1982-2018)