Anti-immigrant Parties in Europe: Ideological or Protest Vote? Export

@article{5961, abstract = {In this article we address the question whether or not the votes for anti2013immigrant parties can be considered as protest votes. We define protest votes by the motives underlying electoral choices, building on earlier research done by Tillie (1995) and Van der Eijk \& Franklin (1996). That research showed that ideological proximity and party size are the best predictors of party preference. On this basis we designed a typology of motives for party choice and how these motives would manifest themselves empirically. Analyzing the 1994 elections for the European Parliament for seven political systems we show that anti2013immigrant parties attract no more protest votes than other parties do, with only one exception: the Dutch Centrumdemocraten. Voting for anti2013immigrant parties is largely motivated by ideological and pragmatic considerations, just like voting for other parties. In addition, (negative) attitudes towards immigrants have a stronger effect on preferences for anti2013immigrant parties than on preference for other parties. Social cleavages and attitudes towards European unification are of minor importance as determinants of preferences for anti2013immigrant parties. The overall conclusion is that a rational choice model of electoral behavior has strong explanatory power for party preferences in general, but also for the support for anti2013immigrant parties in particular.}, author = {Van Der Brug, Wouter and Fennema, Meindert and Tillie, Jean}, citeulike-article-id = {4962951}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.00505}, doi = {10.1111/1475-6765.00505}, journal = {European Journal of Political Research}, keywords = {anti-foreigner, anti-immigrants, austria, file-import-09-06-25, immigrants, migration}, number = {1}, pages = {77--102}, posted-at = {2009-06-25 22:55:45}, priority = {2}, title = {Anti-immigrant Parties in Europe: Ideological or Protest Vote?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.00505}, volume = {37}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - 5961 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4962951 N2 - In this article we address the question whether or not the votes for anti2013immigrant parties can be considered as protest votes. We define protest votes by the motives underlying electoral choices, building on earlier research done by Tillie (1995) and Van der Eijk & Franklin (1996). That research showed that ideological proximity and party size are the best predictors of party preference. On this basis we designed a typology of motives for party choice and how these motives would manifest themselves empirically. Analyzing the 1994 elections for the European Parliament for seven political systems we show that anti2013immigrant parties attract no more protest votes than other parties do, with only one exception: the Dutch Centrumdemocraten. Voting for anti2013immigrant parties is largely motivated by ideological and pragmatic considerations, just like voting for other parties. In addition, (negative) attitudes towards immigrants have a stronger effect on preferences for anti2013immigrant parties than on preference for other parties. Social cleavages and attitudes towards European unification are of minor importance as determinants of preferences for anti2013immigrant parties. The overall conclusion is that a rational choice model of electoral behavior has strong explanatory power for party preferences in general, but also for the support for anti2013immigrant parties in particular. IS - 1 JF - European Journal of Political Research EP - 102 TI - Anti-immigrant Parties in Europe: Ideological or Protest Vote? VL - 37 SP - 77 KW - anti-foreigner KW - anti-immigrants KW - austria KW - file-import-09-06-25 KW - immigrants KW - migration AU - Van Der Brug, Wouter AU - Fennema, Meindert AU - Tillie, Jean PY - 2000/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.00505 ER -