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Schwalbach, Jan ORCID: 0000-0002-6990-8098 . Talking to the Populist Radical Right: A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Debates. Legis. Stud. Q.. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1939-9162

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Abstract

In many Western European states, right-wing populist parties made it into the national parliaments. This presents the established parties with the challenge of how to behave towards the new party. While the scholarly literature has focused more on the interaction with the populist radical right in the electoral arena, we know little about how it functions in an institutionally constrained arena such as parliament. This study asks in what way these structures affect the position taking and confrontation in speeches. Using different text-as-data approaches, I analyze parliamentary debates in four Western European parliaments after the entry of right-wing populist parties. The results show that government-opposition dynamics continue to structure parliamentary debates by and large, but right-wing populist parties succeed in polarizing debates on immigration. They also become the center of attention in these debates. These results have important implications for the analysis of strategic party interaction in the parliamentary context.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schwalbach, Jan UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6990-8098 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-667429
DOI:	10.1111/lsq.12397
Journal or Publication Title:	Legis. Stud. Q.
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1939-9162
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language RIGHT PARTIES; OPPOSITION; GOVERNMENT; POLICY; IMMIGRATION; STRATEGIES; POSITIONS; SUCCESS; TIME Multiple languages Political Science Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66742