van Spanje Controlling the Electoral Marketplace

How Established Parties Ward Off Competition
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-58202-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 182 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book studies how established political parties react to the far left and far right parties that have surged in many democracies worldwide. While some of the extremist parties are being imitated in response, established parties can also choose to systematically rule out all political cooperation with them, imposing a
cordon sanitaire
. A third response by established parties combines these two reactions. How common are these three responses, and how do they affect far left and far right parties’ electoral support? This book addresses these questions by analyzing experimental and non-experimental data from fifteen European countries since 1944. In doing so, it informs scientific and public debates about challenges to established parties, how these parties deal with these challenges, and what the consequences are for the quality of democracy in contemporary democratic societies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

van Spanje, Joost

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One 
Introduction.- 
Chapter Two 
Parrot Parties: Established Parties’ Co-Optation of Other Parties’ Policy Proposals.- 
Chapter Three 
Pariah Parties: Established Parties’ Systematic Boycotting of Other Parties.- 
Chapter Four 
The 'Parroting the Pariah' Effect: Theoretical Framework.- 
Chapter Five 
The 'Parroting the Pariah' Effect: Aggregate-Level Evidence.- 
Chapter Six 
The 'Parroting the Pariah Effect': Individual-Level Evidence.- 
Chapter Seven 
Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Joost van Spanje is Associate Professor of Political Communication at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He previously conducted research at the University of Oxford, the EUI in Florence, and New York University. In recent years Joost has won a variety of awards and several personal research grants.