Essays about: "mainstream party"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 38 essays containing the words mainstream party.

  1. 6. The Rise of the Issue of Law and Order in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Bianca Cattermole; [2023]
    Keywords : Law and order; Sweden; Sweden Democrats; Social Democrats; Moderates; Issue competition; Issue salience; Issue ownership; PSO-theory; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In recent times there has been a general trend of shifting party competition, with new issues being brought to the foreground. Sweden has undergone multiple changes, both societal and political, paving the way for the issue of law and order to emerge. READ MORE

  3. 7. EURONORMATIVITY A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Party Profiles and Electoral Performance in the European Context

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Jan-Georg Knappe; [2022-06-17]
    Keywords : European domestic parties; dimensions of competition; party characteristics; electoral failure; European integration;

    Abstract : The observation that many mainstream parties in European domestic party systems have lost votes over the past two decades is nothing new. Pro-European parties’ continued resistance against a policy shift on the European dimension of domestic party competition arguably provides a better explanation for their decay than existing frameworks which identify policy shifts of specific party families as detrimental to electoral performance in the long term. READ MORE

  4. 8. The “threat from abroad” and the breaking of the Swedish “cordon sanitaire” : A critical discourse analysis of right-wing party-political, online communication in Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Medier och kommunikation

    Author : Hugo Ekström; [2022]
    Keywords : Radical right populism; immigration; criminality; political communication; Facebook; normalization; discursive shifts; moral panic; imaginaries; borderline discourse;

    Abstract : In the last decade, we have witnessed a new stage in the mainstreaming and normalization pro­cess of populist radical right policies and ideas in the Western world. This has resulted in in­creasing politicization of issues related to immigration. READ MORE

  5. 9. Political Fragmentation : A Case study of the political situation in Sweden through mainstream parties’ political discourse and strategies concerning a growing far-right’s presence

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

    Author : Therese Gustafsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Political fragmentation; Far-right; Mainstream parties; Political discourse; Expressions for strategies; Abductive discourse-pathway analysis;

    Abstract : This is a case study of the political situation in Sweden where a present and growing far-right has generated an outcome of political fragmentation. The process between this probable cause and outcome will be investigated to find the best possible explanation for how an isolated party could generate the outcome of political fragmentation despite their denied political participation with the other parties. READ MORE

  6. 10. A Green Menace in Algeria? : A case study of the Front Islamique du Salut and the rejection of Islamism

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Nadia Younnesse; [2022]
    Keywords : Political science; Islamism; Algeria; Case study;

    Abstract : This study examines the case of the Front Islamique du Salut (FIS), a political party that in the early 1990s regrouped various Islamist currents in Algeria and managed to win the municipal elections, and its victory was expected in the parliamentary elections. However, an abrupt coup d’état undertaken by the military and backed inexplicitly by international opinion was to end the party’s success. READ MORE