Parliamentary Representation in Six European Right-Wing Sovereignist Parties: Resemblance or Innovation?
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Borri, Rossella [1] ; Verzichelli, Luca [1]
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[1] Università degli Studi di Siena
Università degli Studi di Siena
Siena, Italia
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- Localización: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics, ISSN 0031-2290, Vol. 74, Nº 3, 2021, págs. 683-703
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The appeal to the re-appropriation of national sovereignty has recently become the unifying trait of a heterogeneous group of right-wing parties. The underlying reasoning behind this claim is that globalised elites ignore the needs of the people—defined as a restricted and ethnically homogeneous group of natives—they are supposed to represent. After defining the perimeter of this party cluster, including populist, national conservatives and extreme-right parties, this article explores the extent to which the adoption of similar political platforms might also be reflected in a convergence of parliamentary party articulations. A qualitative account of the evolution of parliamentary representation in a few right-wing parties from Italy, Hungary and the Netherlands shows that a two-way street of institutionalisation might be at play in the complex balance between uncompromising grassroots components and a more pragmatic institutional component.
