To Stay or to Go? How European right-wing populist parties are adjusting to the post-Brexit era public opinion
(2019) STVM23 20191Department 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
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- Bart Bes LU
- organization
- course
- STVM23 20191
- year
- 2019
- 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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