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Jesuit, David. and Mahler, Vincent. "Electoral Support for Extreme Right-Wing Parties: A Sub-National Analysis of Western European Elections in the 1990s" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60728_index.html>

Jesuit, D. and Mahler, V. , 2004-09-02 "Electoral Support for Extreme Right-Wing Parties: A Sub-National Analysis of Western European Elections in the 1990s" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60728_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The recent successes of Jean Marie Le Pen’s National Front and Jörg Haider’s Freedom Party, to name just a few, have generated a great deal of anxiety among those concerned about the maintenance of liberal values in European societies. In particular, many commentators point to the xenophobic rhetoric these politicians and their supporters espouse, including Le Pen’s claim that France’s economic problems are linked to immigration. Others suggest that these electoral successes spring from poor economic performance or the weakening of Europe’s established political parties on the left and the right. Whatever the explanation, the sudden surge of support for extreme right parties (ERPs) since the 1980s challenges our understanding of democratic politics in Europe, presenting researchers with the task of formulating new hypotheses seeking to explain these developments. Although existing research contributes a great deal to our understanding of the rise of ERPs, no single theory has come to dominate the academic literature. At least three major weaknesses exist in most of the work to date. First, quantitative comparative studies focus almost exclusively on the nation-state, obscuring critical intra-country variance in votes for ERPs, concentrations of immigrants, economic conditions and other significant variables. It is well-known, for example, that the spatial distribution of electoral support for Austria’s Freedom Party, Italy’s Northern League and the Flemish Block in Belgium varies widely, yet few studies explore this dimension. Second, although much of the literature finds a link between national economic conditions, immigration and support for ERPs, studies to date have focused exclusively on unemployment, neglecting other measures of economic distress such as poverty and income inequality Finally, despite recent evidence suggesting that welfare-state generosity reduces support for ERPs (Swank and Betz, 2003), little effort has been made to confirm these findings at the regional level. This last point is particularly relevant since ERPs often espouse “welfare chauvinism,” seeking to limit the benefits of the social welfare state to the native-born population (Kitschelt, 1995). In addressing these gaps in the literature, we take advantage of constituency-level electoral data (from Caramani, 2000) to compute regional vote shares for ERPs in national elections in nine countries in the 1990s: Austria (1995), Belgium (1995), Denmark (1994), Finland (1995), France (1997), Germany (1994), Italy (1996), Spain (1993) and the U.K. (1997). These data enable us to measure institutional factors such as the proportionality of electoral systems at the regional level, factors which previous research suggests are positively associated with electoral support for ERPs. In addition, we estimate sub-national levels of poverty, income inequality and welfare generosity as well as such widely examined variables as immigration and percent unemployed. With respect to methods, we employ Tobit analysis, which accounts for the “left-censoring” of the dependent variable and include country dummy variables to capture unspecified country-level effects manifested in spatial autocorrelation.

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