Multidimensional incongruence, political disaffection, and support for anti-establishment parties
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Multidimensional incongruence, political disaffection, and support for anti-establishment parties. / Bakker, Ryan; Jolly, Seth; Polk, Jonathan.
I: Journal of European Public Policy, Bind 27, Nr. 2, 2020, s. 292-309.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Multidimensional incongruence, political disaffection, and support for anti-establishment parties
AU - Bakker, Ryan
AU - Jolly, Seth
AU - Polk, Jonathan
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - To what extent do representational gaps between parties and voters destabilise party systems and create electoral opportunities for anti-establishment parties on the left and right? In this paper, we use multiple measures of party-partisan incongruence to evaluate whether issue-level incongruence contributes to an increase of political disaffection and anti-establishment politics. For this analysis, we use data from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) for party positions and public opinion data from the European Election Study (EES). Our findings indicate that multidimensional incongruence is associated with disaffection at the national and European level, and that disaffected mainstream party voters are in turn more likely to consider voting for anti-establishment challenger parties. This finding suggests that perceived gaps in party-citizen substantive representation have important electoral ramifications across European democracies.
AB - To what extent do representational gaps between parties and voters destabilise party systems and create electoral opportunities for anti-establishment parties on the left and right? In this paper, we use multiple measures of party-partisan incongruence to evaluate whether issue-level incongruence contributes to an increase of political disaffection and anti-establishment politics. For this analysis, we use data from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) for party positions and public opinion data from the European Election Study (EES). Our findings indicate that multidimensional incongruence is associated with disaffection at the national and European level, and that disaffected mainstream party voters are in turn more likely to consider voting for anti-establishment challenger parties. This finding suggests that perceived gaps in party-citizen substantive representation have important electoral ramifications across European democracies.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - European Union
KW - political parties
KW - representation
KW - populism
U2 - 10.1080/13501763.2019.1701534
DO - 10.1080/13501763.2019.1701534
M3 - Journal article
VL - 27
SP - 292
EP - 309
JO - Journal of European Public Policy
JF - Journal of European Public Policy
SN - 1350-1763
IS - 2
ER -
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