POLI 212 Quiz: Pippa Norris Summary.pdf
23 Apr 2014
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Pippa norris seeks to identify the underlying trends that coincide with the presence of far-right parties in electoral systems. She explains that votes for far-right parties are not linked with trends in immigration, multiculturalism, or ethnic diversity, instead offering a supply-side theory that suggests political parties themselves, and the systems within which they operate, in uence voting behaviour directly. In the rst section, norris analyzes the relationship between far-right parties and ideological space, considering two theses. Brug thesis predicts that the ideological space between the mainstream right party and the far-right proves more signi cant. Put simply, far-right parties need ideological room to gain traction. In examining sixteen european societies, norris nds no correlation to support the. Kitschelt thesis; on the contrary, of the countries analyzed, those with relevant far-right parties had larger left-right gaps. Similarly, norris nds no signi cant correlation between the far-right gap and the success of far-right parties.
