Multidimensional incongruence, political disaffection, and support for anti-establishment parties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6289700 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ryan Bakker (0000-0002-7695-9467, University of Essex), Stephen Jolly (0000-0003-1983-9837, Syracuse University, corresponding author), Seth Jolly, Jonathan Polk (0000-0002-0125-8850, University of Gothenburg) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 292-309 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13501763.2019.1701534 |
| OpenAlex | W3004031022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 54 |
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
Democracy · Economics · Electoral system · Mainstream · National election · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public opinion · Public relations · Radical right · Sociology · Survey data collection · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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