Essays about: "David Fernandez Marcos"

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

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : David Fernandez Marcos; [2019]
    Keywords : Brexit; Right-wing populism; Radical Right; Populism; Euroscepticism; Political Parties; Party Behaviour; Social Sciences;

    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. READ MORE