The Road from a Depoliticized to a Centrifugal Democracy

Pellikaan, Huib; Meer, Tom van der; Lange, Sarah

doi:10.1057/palgrave.ap.5500002

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“…This second dataset elaborates on the principles of the 'confrontational' approach to manual content analysis (Pellikaan et al, 2003;Kriesi et al, 2006). Here, the basic coding unit is the individual policy proposal or pledge.…”

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Towards the median economic crisis voter? The new leftist economic agenda of the Front National in France

Ivaldi

2015

Fr Polit

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International audienceThe Front National (FN) has made an impressive come back into France’s electoral politics since 2012. Adopting a supply-side approach, this article places the electoral rejuvenation of the FN in the context of the global crisis and looks at how the party has adapted programmatically to socio-economic demands emerging from this context. On the basis of manifesto data analysis, we find that despite having recently broadened its economic programme, the FN maintains a niche status in the party system. Our findings show, however, that the party has significantly shifted its economic platform, moving from a predominantly right-wing to a left-wing location since the mid-1980s. This move is characterized by an increase in egalitarian and nationalist economic policies, espousing also a populist framework. The reconfiguration of the FN suggests that the party may have moved to a pivotal position in recent years by converging around the economic preferences of the median voter. We discuss the role of internal and external factors in explaining the economic policy shift by the FN, and consider possible implications of our findings for understanding current populist radical right electoral dynamics in Europe

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Towards the median economic crisis voter? The new leftist economic agenda of the Front National in France

Ivaldi

2015

Fr Polit

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“…Nevertheless, with some exceptions (Pellikaan et al, 2003;Kriesi et al, 2006;Gemenis and Dinas, 2010), until the proliferation of VAAs, the use of Likert scales in measuring parties' positions was limited. Most expert, elite and mass surveys ask respondents to place parties directly on interval scales, which represent the latent dimensions of interest.…”

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Estimating parties’ policy positions through voting advice applications: Some methodological considerations

Gemenis

2012

Acta Polit

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The past few years have seen the advent and proliferation of Voting Advice (or Aid) Applications (VAAs), which offer voting advice on the basis of calculating the ideological congruence between citizens and political actors. Although VAA data have often been used to test many empirical questions regarding voting behaviour and political participation, we know little about the approaches used by VAAs to estimate the positions of political parties. This article presents the most common aspects of the VAA approach and examines some methodological issues regarding the phrasing of statements, the format of response scales, the reliability of coding statements into response scales and the reliability and validity of scaling items into dimensions. The article argues that VAAs have a lot of potential but there is also much space for methodological improvements, and therefore concludes with some recommendations for designing VAAs.

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“…This, however, was certainly not the case. As Pellikaan, De Lange and Van der Meer (2003;2007) argue, the established parties failed to recognise that citizens actually were concerned about the perceived problems of immigration and the 'multicultural' character of society. Fortuyn managed to introduce a new 'cultural' line of political conflict which "had been ignored by the political elite, but was highly salient to the electorate" (Pellikaan et al, 2007, pp.…”

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Explaining the Electoral Performance of Populist Parties: The Netherlands as a Case Study

Kessel

2011

Perspectives on European Politics and Society

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The Road from a Depoliticized to a Centrifugal Democracy

Cited by 49 publications

References 14 publications

Towards the median economic crisis voter? The new leftist economic agenda of the Front National in France

Towards the median economic crisis voter? The new leftist economic agenda of the Front National in France

Estimating parties’ policy positions through voting advice applications: Some methodological considerations

Explaining the Electoral Performance of Populist Parties: The Netherlands as a Case Study

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