Ziele und Inhalte des Seminars

• Überblick über die wichtigsten Ansätze zur Erklärung “rechten” Wahlverhaltens
• Übersicht über die Hauptergebnisse der Forschung
• Auseinandersetzung mit aktueller und aktuellster Literatur

Zur Einführung

• Seminarplan “Die Wahl populistischer, rechtsradikaler und euroskeptischer Parteien”
• Moodle (nur mit JGU-Zugang)

• Arzheimer, Kai. “Explaining Electoral Support for the Radical Right.” The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right:. Ed. Rydgren, Jens. Oxford University Press, 2018. 143-165. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274559.013.8
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  The literature on the Radical Right’s electorate offers a plethora of potential explanations as to why people vote for the Radical Right. This chapter organises the presumptive causes of right-wing voting along the lines of the familiar Micro-Meso-Macro scheme, focusing on a number of landmark studies on the one hand and some of the latest research on the other. In doing so, it weighs the evidence in favour and against some prominent hypotheses about the conditions for Radical Right party success, including the pure-protest hypothesis, the charismatic-leader hypothesis, and the silent-counter-revolution hypothesis. It also discusses the existing knowledge on the effects of a host of meso- and macro-level factors, and points out some directions for further research. The chapter concludes that Radical Right mobilisation is now the rule rather than the exception, and that we should perhaps focus on understanding why they are not successful in some cases

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  voting along the lines of the familiar Micro-Meso-Macro scheme,
  focusing on a number of landmark studies on the one hand and some
  of the latest research on the other. In doing so, it weighs the
  evidence in favour and against some prominent hypotheses about the
  conditions for Radical Right party success, including the
  pure-protest hypothesis, the charismatic-leader hypothesis, and the
  silent-counter-revolution hypothesis. It also discusses the
  existing knowledge on the effects of a host of meso- and
  macro-level factors, and points out some directions for further
  research. The chapter concludes that Radical Right mobilisation is
  now the rule rather than the exception, and that we should perhaps
  focus on understanding why they are not successful in some cases},
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  url = {https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/explanations-radical-right-voting.pdf},
  editor = {Rydgren, Jens}
  }

Themen

Ressourcen

The Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe

Bibliografie mit rund 1500 Titeln zur extremen/radikalen/populistischen Rechten, Schwerpunkt auf Wahlverhalten in Westeuropa: https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography/

The PopuList

Projekt, das für den Zeitraum von 1989-2022 europäische Parteien auf der Basis von Expertenurteilen als populistisch/radikal/extremistisch klassifiziert. Daten und Dokumentation gibt es hier: https://popu-list.org/

Literatur

Versteegen, Peter Luca. 2024. “Those Were the What? Contents of Nostalgia, Relative Deprivation and Radical Right Support.” European Journal of Political Research 63: 259–80. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12593.