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Dansk Folkeparti och Sverigedemokraterna – systerpartier i olika uppväxtmiljö?

Ljunggren, Vilgot LU and Huitfeldt, Malte LU (2023) STVA23 20231
Department of Political Science
Abstract
During the last two decades, we have seen a rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe. In Sweden and Denmark, the support for the two right-wing parties, The Sweden Democrats and The Danish People’s party, deviate from each other. The Sweden Democrats is still on the rise, while The Danish People’s party have lost almost all their support. Why? This is a theory-testing investigation of Bonnie Meguid’s theory on ’’mainstream-parties’’ and their strategies to meet ’’nisch-parties’’. We conduct the examination by investigating Sweden and Denmark using a most-similar design method. Our units of analysis are, in Sweden: The Sweden Democrats, The Social Democrats and The Moderate party, and in Denmark: The Danish People’s Party, The Social... (More)
During the last two decades, we have seen a rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe. In Sweden and Denmark, the support for the two right-wing parties, The Sweden Democrats and The Danish People’s party, deviate from each other. The Sweden Democrats is still on the rise, while The Danish People’s party have lost almost all their support. Why? This is a theory-testing investigation of Bonnie Meguid’s theory on ’’mainstream-parties’’ and their strategies to meet ’’nisch-parties’’. We conduct the examination by investigating Sweden and Denmark using a most-similar design method. Our units of analysis are, in Sweden: The Sweden Democrats, The Social Democrats and The Moderate party, and in Denmark: The Danish People’s Party, The Social Democrats and The Conservative People’s Party. We examine each party’s election manifesto for each election, and compare them to the election results. We found that the Danish, mainstream-parties have taken over the ownership of the nisch-party´s main question. In Sweden, however, the mainstream-parties did not achieve the same results. We are able to conclude that Meguid’s theory is not fully sufficient – there are several other factors that may affect the party’s election results. (Less)
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author
Ljunggren, Vilgot LU and Huitfeldt, Malte LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVA23 20231
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
Etablerade-partier, nischpartier, valresultat, Sverigedemokraterna, Dansk Folkeparti
language
Swedish
id
9114974
date added to LUP
2023-08-18 16:17:16
date last changed
2023-08-18 16:17:16
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  abstract     = {{During the last two decades, we have seen a rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe. In Sweden and Denmark, the support for the two right-wing parties, The Sweden Democrats and The Danish People’s party, deviate from each other. The Sweden Democrats is still on the rise, while The Danish People’s party have lost almost all their support. Why? This is a theory-testing investigation of Bonnie Meguid’s theory on ’’mainstream-parties’’ and their strategies to meet ’’nisch-parties’’. We conduct the examination by investigating Sweden and Denmark using a most-similar design method. Our units of analysis are, in Sweden: The Sweden Democrats, The Social Democrats and The Moderate party, and in Denmark: The Danish People’s Party, The Social Democrats and The Conservative People’s Party. We examine each party’s election manifesto for each election, and compare them to the election results. We found that the Danish, mainstream-parties have taken over the ownership of the nisch-party´s main question. In Sweden, however, the mainstream-parties did not achieve the same results. We are able to conclude that Meguid’s theory is not fully sufficient – there are several other factors that may affect the party’s election results.}},
  author       = {{Ljunggren, Vilgot and Huitfeldt, Malte}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Dansk Folkeparti och Sverigedemokraterna – systerpartier i olika uppväxtmiljö?}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}