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Nativist Notions: The Effects Of Anti-Immigration Parties On Mainstream Conservative Parties In Western European Democracies, Kathleen Gish
Nativist Notions: The Effects Of Anti-Immigration Parties On Mainstream Conservative Parties In Western European Democracies, Kathleen Gish
University of Kentucky Master's Theses
This is an analysis of flank and shift effects in political sociology that focuses on anti-immigrant parties in eight European countries. In a positive radical flank effect the radical party makes the moderate and mildly-threatening parties look good. In turn, that moderate party then gains power or at least many of their ends. A negative radical flank effect occurs when the actual or perceived association of the moderate party with the radical party causes the moderate party to lose support. Radical shift effects are when the moderate or conservative party shifts its policy toward the radical direction. In this case, …