Filling the Void? Political Responsiveness of Populist Parties
- Author(s)
- Carolina Plescia, Sylvia Kritzinger, Lorenzo De Sio
- Abstract
This paper examines the responsiveness of populist parties to the salience of issues amongst the public focusing on a large number of issues on which parties campaign during elections. The paper investigates both left- and right-wing populist parties comparatively in three countries, namely Austria, Germany and Italy. We find that while populist parties carry out an important responsiveness function, they are only slightly more responsive than their mainstream counterparts on the issues they own. The results of this paper have important implications for our understanding of political representation and the future of the populist appeal.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government
- External organisation(s)
- Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali "Guido Carli"
- Journal
- Representation-the Journal of Representative Democracy
- Volume
- 55
- Pages
- 513-533
- No. of pages
- 21
- ISSN
- 0034-4893
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2019.1635197
- Publication date
- 2019
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 506012 Political systems
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sociology and Political Science
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/filling-the-void-political-responsiveness-of-populist-parties(fcd85b5c-3231-4abe-a38c-3af07a877d21).html