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To Stay or to Go? How European right-wing populist parties are adjusting to the post-Brexit era public opinion

Fernandez Marcos, David LU (2019) STVM23 20191
Department of Political Science
Abstract
Since the 1990s a great deal of literature has been written predicting the behaviour of right-wing populists, explaining their policies and ideology but until Brexit, there had been no such clear victory for right-wing populist policies. Drawing from the current state of the art, data from the national and European electoral party manifestos as well as Eurobarometer survey data from France, Germany, Italy and Sweden, this dissertation employs Strom’s rational choice-based party behaviour model to explore how the internal structure and each country’s political and institutional environments have mediated the right-wing populist parties’ reaction to the upswing of positive opinions about the European Union among European public opinion since... (More)
Since the 1990s a great deal of literature has been written predicting the behaviour of right-wing populists, explaining their policies and ideology but until Brexit, there had been no such clear victory for right-wing populist policies. Drawing from the current state of the art, data from the national and European electoral party manifestos as well as Eurobarometer survey data from France, Germany, Italy and Sweden, this dissertation employs Strom’s rational choice-based party behaviour model to explore how the internal structure and each country’s political and institutional environments have mediated the right-wing populist parties’ reaction to the upswing of positive opinions about the European Union among European public opinion since Brexit, in two directions: by either continuing their promise to leave the EU or by dropping the promise and instead advocating institutional reform, in those cases where the parties seek to govern. (Less)
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author
Fernandez Marcos, David LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVM23 20191
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Brexit, Right-wing populism, Radical Right, Populism, Euroscepticism, Political Parties, Party Behaviour
language
English
id
8975939
date added to LUP
2019-09-06 09:20:38
date last changed
2019-09-06 09:20:42
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  abstract     = {{Since the 1990s a great deal of literature has been written predicting the behaviour of right-wing populists, explaining their policies and ideology but until Brexit, there had been no such clear victory for right-wing populist policies. Drawing from the current state of the art, data from the national and European electoral party manifestos as well as Eurobarometer survey data from France, Germany, Italy and Sweden, this dissertation employs Strom’s rational choice-based party behaviour model to explore how the internal structure and each country’s political and institutional environments have mediated the right-wing populist parties’ reaction to the upswing of positive opinions about the European Union among European public opinion since Brexit, in two directions: by either continuing their promise to leave the EU or by dropping the promise and instead advocating institutional reform, in those cases where the parties seek to govern.}},
  author       = {{Fernandez Marcos, David}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{To Stay or to Go? How European right-wing populist parties are adjusting to the post-Brexit era public opinion}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}