Anti-immigrant parties, local presence and electoral success
2012 (English)In: Local Government Studies, ISSN 0300-3930, E-ISSN 1743-9388, Vol. 38, no 6, p. 817-839Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Does the local organisational presence of anti-immigrant parties affect their chances for electoral success? In order to answer this question, the article explores the potential of a supply-oriented explanation to anti-immigrant party success by examining the electoral advancements the Sweden Democrats (SD) made in the 2006 and 2010 elections. Our results indicate that traditional demand side-explanations to anti-immigrant party success can be successfully complemented by a ‘internal supply-side argument’ to make the electoral fates of these parties more intelligible. Whether the SD had a local organisational presence had a substantial effect on its results in the national election and on the probability of gaining representation in local councils. Thus, the party´s fate in the national as well as local elections was largely determined by whether or not it had a local organisational presence in Swedish municipalities.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2012. Vol. 38, no 6, p. 817-839
Keywords [en]
Anti-immigrant parties, elections, Sweden, ‘internal supply-side’-approach
National Category
Political Science
Research subject
Social Sciences, Political Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-17775DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2012.740411ISI: 000314914900008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84874324420OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-17775DiVA, id: diva2:505845
2012-02-262012-02-262021-05-05Bibliographically approved