scholarly journals Why are Extreme Right Parties so Popular in Europe?

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Radu-Vladimir Rauta
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
The Past ◽  
Real Increase ◽  
Recent Activity ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Extreme Right Parties

This topic has witnessed a real increase in media coverage due to the recent activity of extreme right parties across Europe, notable being in the past year the Greek parties and the Dutch stance regarding immigration. For answering the question, and following the pathway of the module, the essay is looking at the extreme right parties in four European countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. Research for this paper has been focused mostly on the specialised literature, Pietro Ignazi being brought into discussion the most. Because of the large variables over years, the essay is looking at the parties from the 1960s until the early 2000s.

The functions and positions of political parties in consociational democracies: theoretical and empirical contexts

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
O. Morhuniuk
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Party System ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Democratic Regimes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Further Development

An article is devoted to the analysis of the functions and formats of political parties in consociational democracies. In particular, it is defined that parties that represent the interests of certain subcultures in society and that reach a consensus among themselves at the level of political agreements are called segmental. At the same time, parties that encapsulate different subgroups of the society that cooperate inside the party within main features of the consociational theory (grand coalition, mutual veto, proportionality in representations, and independence of segments or society subcultures) are called consociational. The theory of consociationalism has received a wide range of theoretical additions and criticism from political scientists over the past fifty years. And while political parties should have been, by definition, one of the key aspects of research within such democratic regimes (parties are part of large coalitions and agents of representation of certain subcultures), there is very scarce number of literature that focuses on this aspect. Therefore, the presented article provides a description of the functions of political parties that could be observed as inside their subcultures as well as in interaction with other segmental parties. Based on the experience of two European countries in the period of “classical” consociationalism (Belgium and the Netherlands), we explain the functions of the parties we have defined in such societies with examples of relevant consociational practices in them. Simultaneously with the analysis of segmental parties, the article also offers the characteristics of consociational parties. The emergence of such parties has its own institutional and historical features. The way of further development of the party system and the level of preservation of consociational practices makes it possible to understand the nature of changes in the societies. Similarly, the analysis of the forms of party competition and interaction between segmental parties makes it possible to outline the forms of those consociational changes that are taking place in the research countries.

Electoral Institutions, Unemployment and Extreme Right Parties: A Correction

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 525-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATT GOLDER
Keyword(s):  
European Countries ◽  
Electoral Institutions ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Extreme Right Parties ◽  
West European

In their 1996 article in this Journal, Robert Jackman and Karin Volpert analyse the systematic conditions that influence the electoral success of extreme right parties in sixteen West European countries from 1970 to 1990. In particular, they focus on the effects of unemployment, electoral thresholds and multi-partism.

Biotechnology in the Netherlands: controversy or consensus?

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan M. Gutteling
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Dutch Population ◽  
Modern Biotechnology ◽  
Political Economic

This paper addresses the issue of public perception of modern biotechnology in the Netherlands. Contrary to expectations, data from the 1999 Eurobarometer on biotechnology indicate that the position of the Dutch public in general is rather ambiguous, which is in contrast to many of its neighboring countries. The issue is described in terms of differences between the Netherlands and other European countries on political-economic, social-cultural, or media coverage indicators. On many indicators, the Dutch population differs from that of other European countries, and the Dutch opinion-leading media present a rather balanced perspective on modern biotechnology.

Mindless Thugs Running Riot? Mainstream, Alternative and Online Media Representations of Football Crowd Violence

2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramón Spaaij
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Analytic Framework

This article examines the nature of media coverage of football (soccer) crowd violence in three European countries (England, The Netherlands and Spain). It presents an analytic framework that draws on etic (outsider) and emic (insider) perspectives, and illustrates how each perspective is (re)presented in different forms of media. Whereas the mainstream media's reporting of football crowd violence generally is consistent with the notions of etic representation and moral panic, alternative media tend to construct emic perspectives and use dramatised personal experience in reporting. The framework presented provides a foundation for further analysis and empirical investigation of media depictions of football crowd violence.

Parliamentary Representation in Six European Right-Wing Sovereignist Parties: Resemblance or Innovation?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossella Borri ◽  
Luca Verzichelli
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Heterogeneous Group ◽  
Homogeneous Group ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
The People ◽  
Extreme Right Parties

Abstract The appeal to the re-appropriation of national sovereignty has recently become the unifying trait of a heterogeneous group of right-wing parties. The underlying reasoning behind this claim is that globalised elites ignore the needs of the people—defined as a restricted and ethnically homogeneous group of natives—they are supposed to represent. After defining the perimeter of this party cluster, including populist, national conservatives and extreme-right parties, this article explores the extent to which the adoption of similar political platforms might also be reflected in a convergence of parliamentary party articulations. A qualitative account of the evolution of parliamentary representation in a few right-wing parties from Italy, Hungary and the Netherlands shows that a two-way street of institutionalisation might be at play in the complex balance between uncompromising grassroots components and a more pragmatic institutional component.

scholarly journals Extreme right parties in Europe today: definition and electoral performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Aline Burni
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Background ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
European Elections ◽  
Electoral Support ◽  
Democratic Systems ◽  
Europe Today ◽  
Party Family ◽  
Electoral Performance ◽  
Extreme Right Parties

Since the 1980’s, many European countries known for their consolidated democratic systems, have experienced the unexpected electoral emergence of so-called extreme right or populist radical right parties. With the development of recent elections in the Netherlands, France, Germany and Austria, extreme right parties such as the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), the French National Front (FN), the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) have attracted attention both from the media and in academic investigation, because of their radical and populist appeals, as well as their relevant electoral results. What do these parties have in common? Do they belong to a single party family? More recently, what has been their electoral support in different countries and types of elections? To contribute to introductory comparative understanding about this topic, this paper will examine the existing literature, and analyze descriptive electoral data of recent contests. The aims of this work are twofold. First, it intends to provide theoretical background about discussions on the terminology and party family definition, which will be done grounded on the specialized literature. I argue that extreme right parties can be defined based on three features: identitarian politics, authoritarian values and a populist style. Second, this work assesses the current electoral performance of main extreme right parties across European countries, using descriptive data collected from three platforms: “ParlGov”, “Parties and Elections in Europe” and “European Elections Database”.

Czech extreme right parties an unsuccessful story

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Mareš
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Party System ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Marginal Part ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Extreme Right Parties

This article describes the extreme right in the Czech Republic, where, in contrast to several other countries of Central and Eastern Europe, this part of the political spectrum has been unsuccessful for the past ten years. The aim of this article is to analyse the position of the extreme right in the Czech party system and the internal ideological and strategic cleavages within the extreme right. The conclusion of this article is that organized party-political extremism is after two decades of modern political development only a marginal part of the Czech political spectrum, with many internal problems and without real chances of significant success in the near future.

scholarly journals Much ado about nothing: Zeros and the extreme right

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205316801985098
Author(s):  
Sean Kates
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Cross Validation ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Model Choice ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Much Ado About Nothing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Extreme Right Parties

The literature surrounding extreme right parties in Europe has developed dramatically over the past two decades. However, the analysis of electoral success for these parties has produced muddled results, and occasionally even conflicting findings. This article argues this confusion is partially due to a reliance on an inappropriate model choice. Through the use of simulations, a goodness-of-fit exercise, and a prediction exercise based on model cross-validation, I show that the traditional Tobit specification—adopted to deal with electoral results of fringe parties—is theoretically untenable, statistically inferior to alternative models, and practically prone to revealing effects that are unsupported by the underlying data. Rather, the results suggest that best practices should see researchers adopt Cragg or Heckman models for two-stage questions, or consider adopting an analysis applying multiple overimputation if the main question is focused on the determinants of electoral success.

scholarly journals Right-wing populism’s (ab)use of the past in Italy and the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Stefan Couperus ◽  
Pier Domenico Tortola
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Deep Insight ◽  
The Past ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Insight Into

Historical analysis is increasingly used as a tool in the study of present-day populism in Europe. The past is often explored as a source of analogies through which to examine today’s populism, and at other times in search of causal mechanisms to explain the current populist wave. In this paper we focus on a third kind of link between populism and the past, namely the ways populist movements and leaders use and abuse history and historical memory in their quest for mass support. This angle on the populism/history nexus can yield deep insight into the ideological make-up of these movements and their voters, and populism’s discursive dynamics and strategies.Focusing on contemporary right-wing populism and its approach to the dark past of European countries, the paper conducts an exploratory analysis that posits three ways in which the past is (ab)used by populists: (a) the positive reassessment of dark history; (b) the recourse to fake history; (c) the evocation and subsequent denial of links with the dark past. In examining each, we use examples taken from the cases of Italy and The Netherlands to check the plausibility of our categories across different national cases. 

scholarly journals Granice i miasta graniczne Królestwa Belgii

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-124
Author(s):  
Ryszard Żelichowski
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The 19Th Century

The Kingdom of Belgium appeared on the map of European countries relatively late, namely in 1830, as a result of the division of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands into two sovereign states. As the Kingdom of Belgium transformed from a unitary state into a federal state in the 19th century, in addition to the external (state) borders, it also has internal borders, which separate three autonomous regions, three linguistic communities and four linguistic regions. The basis of internal divisions is the linguistic conflict of two cultures colliding in the territory of the Kingdom of Belgium: French and Dutch-speaking (Roman and Germanic). These divisions also pass through towns and villages. This conflict was resolved in the 1960s by applying a unique concept of communes with linguistic facilities, where two different languages were allowed to function officially. Linguistic divisions were especially sharp in the two world wars, when the occupiers set these two separate cultures against one another. In this article, the author analyses particularly dramatic cases of this type of borders and their consequences for the residents of the borderland.

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