Author's Keywords: Radical right parties, East-European party politics, Attack Party, parliamentary elections Bulgaria	Convention All Academic Convention can solve the abstract management needs for any association's annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Stefanova, Boyka. "Testing Theories of Radical Right Voting: Social Structure versus Political Agency and Electoral Support for the Attack Party in Bulgaria" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-27 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209637_index.html>

Stefanova, B. , 2007-08-30 "Testing Theories of Radical Right Voting: Social Structure versus Political Agency and Electoral Support for the Attack Party in Bulgaria" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2009-05-27 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209637_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Why do people vote for radical right parties? Is radical right voting determined by social structures, or is it induced by the political opportunities of electoral competition? This research tests for competing explanations of electoral support for the radical right on the example of the 2005 Bulgarian parliamentary elections. Methodologically, the study applies a two-stage design examining the determinants of voter demand and political supply in separate models. This approach yields two principal findings: First, that party-specific variables, such as confidence in the radical right party and its charismatic leader, are the strongest and most consistent predictors of radical right voting when tested against sociodemographic variables, general political attitudes, and economic interests. Second, the results suggest that radical right political agency affects the distribution of electoral preferences whereby voters pertaining to certain sociological and attitudinal categories—blue-collar workers, older voters, and medium-education cohorts in the large cities, voters sharing centrist ideology, lower levels of political trust, and ethnocentrism—are more likely than other groups to vote radical right as an expression of protest against the incumbents, despite the lack of proximity with extreme right ideologies.

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