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James Downes

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Who votes for the radical right PiS Party in Poland?

  • James Downes
  • August 24, 2021
We examine how the governing radical right Polish Law and Justice Party (PiS) has a unique voter profile. Our findings reveal that in addition to strong anti-immigrant attitudes, voters that…
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    Centre-Right Party Electoral Success on Immigration in Europe: Diverse Macro-Economic & Macro-Political Contexts in the 21st Century

    • James Downes
    • August 12, 2021
    Dr James F. Downes finds that across the span of the twenty-first century, mainstream centre-right parties have been able to benefit electorally from adopting different strategies on the immigration issue…
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      The Center Right Goes Hardline On Immigration In Europe

      • James Downes
      • March 29, 2021
      The Importance Of The Immigration Issue The European Refugee crisis, which began in 2015, has provided significant challenges for mainstream political parties in Europe, both on the center left, the…
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        Explaining Electoral Support for the Far-Right Sweden Democrats (2016–2017)

        • James Downes
        • December 16, 2020
        Drawing on public opinion data from 2016–2017, Dr James F. Downes and graduate Jeremy Lok examine the ‘rise’ in support for the Sweden Democrats, in the context of the refugee…
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          Disunity within the Ranks? Party Expulsions in the European Radical Right: 2000–2020

          • James Downes
          • August 28, 2020
          Drawing on an original database of party expulsions of radical right parties in Europe across twenty countries from 2000-2020, Felix Wiebrecht, James F. Downes, Edward Chan and Anna Kam devise…
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            Ideological Ambiguity, Issue Blurring & Party Dissent: The Electoral Decline of the Populist Italian Five Star Movement

            • James Downes
            • July 6, 2020
            James F. Downes and Nicola Palma argue that Italian Five Star Movement’s (M5S) future as a governing party is uncertain. Drawing on data from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (2014,…
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              ‘Syncretic’ Populism in Contemporary 21st Century European Politics

              • James Downes
              • February 19, 2020
              What is ‘Syncretism’? ‘Syncretism’, also known as “Catch-all Populism” in the academic literature, is an ambiguous term that has often been applied to political parties that are ideologically centrist and have…
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                What Drives the Center Right’s Electoral Success?

                • James Downes
                • January 28, 2020
                Center-right parties recognized the 2008 economic crisis as a time of greater voter volatility when the populist radical right sought to secure more support through appeals over immigration. The 2008…
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                  The Far-Right Party Family in the 21st Century: A Guide

                  • James Downes
                  • August 28, 2019
                  Ideological Diversity  Contemporary Far Right parties in Europe are often grouped into two distinct ideological wings. It is first important to differentiate between populist radical right parties (PRR) and extreme…
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                    From ‘Challengers’ to ‘Incumbents’: The Populist Radical Right in Government

                    • James Downes
                    • August 22, 2019
                    Electoral Breakthroughs Following the electoral breakthrough of the populist radical right (PRR) in continental Europe in both recent national parliamentary elections covering the 2015–2018 refugee crisis period and the 2019…
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