From Neo-Liberal Economic Policy to Welfare Chauvinism

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  • 新自由主義から福祉排外主義へ
  • 西欧の右翼ポピュリスト政党における政策転換
  • Success and Failure of Policy Shifts in Austrian Freedom Party and Danish Progressive Party

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This article aims to explain the effect of economic policy shifts in European right-wing populist parties. For this purpose, we use both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Right-wing populist parties, presenting themselves as reformists, emerged with insisting on market-orientated economic policy in the seventies or eighties. However, in the nineties, they adopted “welfare chauvinism”. First, we measure policy positions of right-wing populists by using principal component analysis in order to describe their policy shifts. Second, in order to estimate the effect of policy shifts, we compare Austrian Freedom Party and Danish Progressive Party, both of which originally insisted on privatization and deregulation. On the one hand, Freedom Party changed their economic policy and increased their seats in parliament. On the other hand, Progressive Party lost their seats due to failure of changing their ultra-liberal position. Their difference implies that welfare chauvinism is important for right-wing populists to obtain their core supporters.

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  • CRID
    1390282680280700928
  • NII Article ID
    130006302240
  • DOI
    10.14854/jaes.30.1_143
  • ISSN
    18840353
    09123512
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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