The effect of radical right fringe parties on main parties in Central and Eastern Europe: Empirical evidence from manifesto data

Heinisch, Reinhard; Saxonberg, Steven; Werner, Annika; Habersack, Fabian

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“…This in turn kept the immigration issue outside of political discourse and consequently resulted in blurred dividing lines between left and right. The analysis of party manifestos confirmed that mainstream parties in Eastern Europe failed to react to the rise of radical right parties and did not position themselves more clearly on issues such as nationalism and immigration (Heinisch et al 2019 : 10). Empirical studies at the citizen-level found a lower effect of left–right value orientation on immigration attitudes in Eastern Europe (Ceobanu and Escandell 2010 : 321; Citrin and Sides 2008 : 47–48), which gives us confidence to expect the same conditional effect for Eastern European MPs.…”

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Immigration attitudes among Western and Eastern European MPs: social identity, economic aspects and political ideology

Kocijan¹,

Kukec

2021

Comp Eur Polit

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This article calls for greater attention to immigration attitudes of members of national parliaments (MPs) who absent harmonized immigration policy at the EU level remain the chief decision-makers and are thus responsible for swift government reaction to large influx of immigrants as witnessed in summer 2015 and spring 2020. Against this background, attitudes of MPs toward non-EU immigrants can be highly informative for understanding the foundation and direction of future immigration policy reforms. Although knowledge of MPs immigration attitudes is seemingly important, studies interested in this topic remain scarce. To test the relative importance of identity and economic aspects of MPs' immigration attitudes, this study adopts few well-established theoretical approaches from citizen-level research. Our data come from an MP survey that was administered in 11 Western and Eastern European countries in late 2014 as part of the European National Elites and the Crisis project. Our results suggest that social identity (religiosity) along with political ideology rather than economic concerns drive MPs' immigration attitudes. In addition, we find that in Eastern Europe immigration is only a light force behind political competition unlike in Western Europe, while economic left in Eastern Europe is more anti-immigrant than in Western Europe.

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Immigration attitudes among Western and Eastern European MPs: social identity, economic aspects and political ideology

Kocijan¹,

Kukec

2021

Comp Eur Polit

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“…Focusing on the influence of Eurosceptic parties, Meijers (2017) as well as Wagner and Meyer (2017) confirm this development. Shifting the focus to Eastern and Central European countries, Heinisch et al (2021), however, do not confirm this trend. Thus, the rich literature on radical right-wing parties points to a responsiveness of Western European mainstream parties towards radical right-wing parties on single issues.…”

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Chasing the Other “Populist Zeitgeist”? Mainstream Parties and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism

Bayerlein

2021

Polit Vierteljahresschr

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This article answers the question of why certain European mainstream parties have changed their policy positions on the GAL-TAN (Green/Alternative/Libertarian vs. Traditional/Authoritarian/Nationalist) dimension in recent years. I argue that these changes can be explained through the electoral success of new right-wing populist parties and the ideological proximity of conservative mainstream parties towards these parties. These arguments were tested with econometric models of mainstream parties’ policy positions in 11 Western European democracies between 2002 and 2019. The results indicate that mainstream parties chase the other “populist zeitgeist” by changing their policy positions on the GAL–TAN dimension in response to the electoral success of right-wing populist parties. Mainstream parties respond to this threat by closing the distance to these parties on the GAL–TAN dimension. However, this responsiveness is largely constrained to conservative mainstream parties. The findings have important implications for understanding mainstream party responsiveness towards rivalling right-wing populist parties.

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The Emergence of Right-Wing Partisanship in Poland, 1993–2018: Reconciling Demand-Side Explanations of the Success of Illiberalism

Ślarzyński

2023

Perspect. polit.

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Scholars studying the electoral breakthroughs of right-wing illiberalism have arrived at two general conclusions: while they largely rejected the hypothesis that this phenomenon is grounded in voters’ attitudinal shift, they have shown that those voting for the illiberal Right have distinguishing socio-economic and attitudinal characteristics. My analysis reconciles these two sets of findings by documenting the gradual emergence and transformation of the right-wing electorate in Poland in the period 1993–2018 and points to the consolidation of a right-wing partisanship as an organizing factor of the “illiberal moment.” Using the POLPAN panel dataset I find that populist and authoritarian attitudes indeed emerge in Poland in the twenty-first century to distinguish those supporting the Right more and more centered around the PiS party. These attitudes, however, have been incorporated in the context of partisan rivalry—right-wing voters, for example, are more supportive of limiting democratic procedures but only when the Right is in power. In the first decade of the twenty-first century PiS also politicized the lack of partisan consensus on the expansion of the welfare state. PiS incorporated this demand in its stance legitimizing the expansion of the welfare state through what was available in its ideological repertoire: national solidarity, national victimhood, and the idea of a sovereign nation-state joined under the umbrella of Catholic symbolism. This post-consensus polarization and asymmetrical political radicalization resembles the “illiberal moment” in Western Europe that followed the convergence between center-left and center-right parties but they lack a crystallized class-based political identity and social-democratic understanding of political economy to build on.

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The effect of radical right fringe parties on main parties in Central and Eastern Europe: Empirical evidence from manifesto data

Cited by 4 publications

References 54 publications

Immigration attitudes among Western and Eastern European MPs: social identity, economic aspects and political ideology

Immigration attitudes among Western and Eastern European MPs: social identity, economic aspects and political ideology

Chasing the Other “Populist Zeitgeist”? Mainstream Parties and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism

The Emergence of Right-Wing Partisanship in Poland, 1993–2018: Reconciling Demand-Side Explanations of the Success of Illiberalism

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