CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Stojkovic, Stefan |
|---|---|
| Title | Party Competition and Public Demand after the Financial Crisis: Radical Right Parties in Established Democracies |
| Summary | While major theoretical work on the Radical Right (RR) was developed before the 2008 Financial Crisis, electoral results over the last decade have initiated an extensive debate within the Radical Right voting literature. From the post-crisis work on the RR we have already learned a great deal about those who vote for these parties in Western Europe. Nevertheless, we know less about who radical right parties actually compete for votes with and what differentiates their voter base from these competitors' voter base. This study comparatively analyzes political competition based on the empirically grounded criteria coming from individual-level data. I ask two questions: First, does the political competition differ for radical right parties when they compete for votes with (a) center- right and (b) leftist parties. Second, what are the implications to political competition when a radical right party competes with an incumbent party and what when it competes with other opposition party. To respond to these questions I test several theoretically informed hypotheses through a pooled and separate case-by-case analyses. Empirical findings suggest a striking irrelevance of the indicators of retrospective economic protest voting among the RR electorate, irrespective of which parties' voters they are analyzed against. Nevertheless, salience of position issues along with, to some extent, prospective economic voting, provides information on where might the radical right competitive advantage reside in comparison to other parties. |
| Supervisor | Bochsler Daniel |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/stojkovic_stefan.pdf |
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