Filling the Void? Political Responsiveness of Populist Parties

Autor(en)

Carolina Plescia, Sylvia Kritzinger, Lorenzo De Sio

Abstrakt

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(en)

Institut für Staatswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali "Guido Carli"

Journal

Representation-the Journal of Representative Democracy

Band

55

Seiten

513-533

Anzahl der Seiten

21

ISSN

0034-4893

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2019.1635197

Publikationsdatum

2019

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

506012 Politische Systeme

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Sociology and Political Science

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/filling-the-void-political-responsiveness-of-populist-parties(fcd85b5c-3231-4abe-a38c-3af07a877d21).html