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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Mainstream Parties"”.
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The Success & Failure of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Benelux
… electoral performances of right-wing populist parties in the Benelux region (i.e. Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg). Despite numerous historical and political commonalities, right-wing populist parties have been more successful in the Netherlands and Flanders (i.e. the northern, …
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Revenge of the Radical Right: Why Minority Accommodation Mobilizes Extremist Voting
… explain variation in support for radical right parties over time and across post-communist democracies? This project suggests that support for radical right parties is driven by the politics of accommodation, and is aimed at counteracting the political inroads, cultural concessions and economic …
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The Women's Equality Party: Sustainability, Longevity, and Impacts
… emerged in 2015 out of a dissatisfaction with mainstream politics and a want to put women’s interests at the top of the political agenda. The party reasoned that if women’s equality could be accepted as a ‘vote winner’ by mainstream parties, it would no longer need to exist. WEP leaders boldly …
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Neišpildytos separatistinės ambicijos bei vidinės (de)stabilizacijos požymiai: SNP partijos atvejo studija /
… framework for the study of separatist parties, due to their rather different characteristics from mainstream parties.
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Political Disaffection and the Decline of the Centre: Quantitative Text Analysis Approaches
… figures and politicians of the mainstream may not be as clearly distinguishable in speech as is sometimes thought. Political speech in general has perhaps become simpler since mid-century; mainstream parties are known to borrow stylistic traits and policy positions from rising …
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Problematika imigrace v programech ČSSD a ODS
… context of two ideologically different political parties which have had permanent representation in the Parliament of Czech Republic since 1993 - ČSSD and ODS. The analysis starts with the year 2012 when neither media nor political agendas did assign any importance to this topic. The whole …
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Political Parties and Social Movements: Mobilizing and Representing Civil Society
Most political parties that emerged in Europe since 1945 have roots in social movements, but unlike older mainstream parties with movement origins they did not adopt an electoral-professional party model focused on pursuing the median voter. Neither have they retained their organizational …
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The Ethnic Nationalist Seduction: Populist Radical Right Parties in Denmark and Sweden
Populist radical right (PRR) political parties have become important players in many European countries. These parties generally have a core ideology of ethnic nationalism supported by antiestablishment populism and sociocultural authoritarianism. PRR parties have managed to find electoral success …
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Defenders of the Faith? Religion and Right-wing Populism in Germany, France and the United States in the 21st Century
… religious-laden rhetoric and what is the role of mainstream parties and religious leaders in shaping these responses? Finally, what do these trends mean for the role of faith and religious institutions in Western democracies going forward? Drawing on new survey data, party manifestos and 115 …
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Attitudes Towards Immigration in Western and Central-Eastern Europe: A Comparative Analysis
… exposure to foreigners, and cues from political parties and fellow citizens. This dissertation links the sudden and rapid drop in immigration attitudes in most of the CEE region to the electoral strategy of mainstream parties. The results have implications for our understanding of attitude …
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Minor Parties In English Local Government
… examines the electoral performance of minor parties in English local government from 1973 to 2008, a period that has seen a sharp increase in the numbers of candidates from such parties. Beginning with an overall assessment of the extent to which candidates from minor parties have contested …
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The Political Consequences of Socio-Economic Inequality
… not alter the probability of voting for populist parties and populist voting remains generally high. They seem to represent the closest candidate to being the real “economic voters”. For them, when making a voting decision, trust in national government does not matter, and their economic situation …