The emergence of right-wing radicalism at the local level in Spain

The Catalan case

Bibliographic Data

ID12936133
AuthorsSergi Pardos-Prado (University of Oxford), Sergi Pardos‐prado (0000-0002-6944-326X, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Joaquim M Molins (Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona)
Year2009
Volume22
Issue3
Pages201-218
Publication date2009-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Iberian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1758-9150 • E-ISSN: 1364-971X
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/ijis.22.3.201/1
OpenAlexW1990253358
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In spite of being considered an example of failure of the radical right, Spain has seen for the first time since the restoration of democracy how some extreme parties got representation in the last 2003 and 2007 local elections. This article focuses on the most successful among these parties, namely the Plataforma per Catalunya . We suggest that partisan conversion of socialist voters and mobilization of former abstainers are the main origin of radical votes. By contrast, new cohorts of voters and swings from right-wing voters or nationalist voters do not have an influence. The results are triangulated with two methods of ecological inference that allow us to estimate the proportion of individuals who changed their vote in one direction or the other across two consecutive elections

Catalan · Contrast (vision · Democracy · Extreme right · Humanities · Mobilization · Nationalism · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Radical right · Representation (politics · Right wing · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Law · Philosophy

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