By Pippa Norris
The middle puzzle which this publication resolves is to provide an explanation for why radical correct events have complicated in a various array of democracies--including Austria, Canada, Norway, France, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Israel, Romania, Russia, and Chile--while failing to make similar profits in comparable societies in other places, reminiscent of Sweden, Britain, and the USA. This ebook expands our knowing of help for radical correct events by way of featuring an built-in new thought that's then verified systematically utilizing a wealth of cross-national survey facts masking virtually 40 nations.
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39 The theory suggests that government policies, however, often continue to overshoot the new public consensus, until policymakers become aware of the shift and move back into line with the zone of acquiescence. If politicians fail to perceive a significant change in public sentiment, or else fail to respond to the shift, they face the threat of electoral defeat. In the short term, the link between public preferences and electoral outcomes remains crude and imperfect, since parties and candidates may be returned to power on successive occasions for many reasons, such as distortions of the electoral system, the personal popularity of charismatic leaders, or the impact of media campaign coverage, even when the policy mood is slowly moving against them.
In this context, radical right parties will fail to gain office unless they also expand their policy platform and ideological appeals beyond cultural protectionism to encompass a broader range of values and if they dilute their ideology with populist appeals. An effective electoral strategy requires radical right parties to advocate more diverse social and economic values, and to emphasize vague rhetoric and simple slogans, largely devoid of any substantive policy content. Majoritarian electoral systems have higher electoral hurdles, since parties need a simple plurality or a majority of votes in each district to win.
Iv) Radical Right Parties Have Responded Most Effectively to This Shift in Public Opinion by Articulating Concerns and Supplying Policies about Cultural Protectionism, Thereby Meeting Popular Demand Within this context, on the supply side, the strategic challenge facing radical right parties is how to mobilize sufficient support to carve out a niche section of the electoral market which is not already occupied by P1: JZZ 0521849144c01 24 CUNY008B/Norris 0 521 84914 4 July 5, 2005 15:41 Understanding the Radical Right the established parties on the center and center-right.
