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James Downes

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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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  • 9 min
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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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  • 9 min
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East v. West? The Internal Battle within the Far Right in Germany

  • James Downes
  • June 19, 2019
The 2019 European Parliament Elections provided an important case where the far-right Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) performed electorally well. However, we argue that there is a core tension within…
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The Populist Radical Right Is an Electoral Threat That Is Here to Stay

  • James Downes
  • June 6, 2019
In the 2019 European Parliament elections, populist radical-right parties have further increased their vote shares. Academic scholarship and media coverage of the populist radical right has expanded considerably in the…
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Your Guide To The 2019 European Parliament Elections

  • James Downes
  • June 1, 2019
Consensus over the EU’s future will be more difficult with a more pluralistic EU. The European Parliament (EP) 2019 elections are incredibly important for the future of the EU, as…
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