Terrorism’s effect on Europe’s centre- and far-right parties

European far-right parties have enjoyed mixed success in the past few years. The primary elements in many of these parties’ policy platforms centre on security, terrorism, and foreign persons. Naturally, these platforms are designed to attract electoral support that these actors can parlay into gove...

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Published inEuropean political science Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 100 - 121
Main Authors Wheatley, William, Robbins, Joseph, Hunter, Lance Y., Ginn, Martha Humphries
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Palgrave Macmillan UK 01.03.2020
Palgrave Macmillan
Subjects
Comparative Politics
Governance
Partisanship
Political platform
Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Political Science and International Studies
Political Theory
Terrorism
Voters
Political violence
European politics
Far-right politics
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Summary:European far-right parties have enjoyed mixed success in the past few years. The primary elements in many of these parties’ policy platforms centre on security, terrorism, and foreign persons. Naturally, these platforms are designed to attract electoral support that these actors can parlay into governing positions. Our study offers an important test to ascertain how voters respond to terrorist attacks with respect to centre- and far-right parties. We contend that far-right parties are to likely benefit from terrorist attacks more than centre-right parties. The results from more than 30 European countries, spanning 1975–2013, affirm our hypothesis. The implications for partisanship, governance, and terrorism are explored in this paper as well.
ISSN:1680-4333
1682-0983
DOI:10.1057/s41304-019-00210-8