Voting PiS: Voting Left when Voting Far-Right Populist?

2020/06/01 by Pascal Siemsen · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Populism, Right-Wing Movements #German legal, social, and political studies #Catholicism, Bioethics, Media, Education

paper · pdf · doi:10.2478/ppsr-2020-0006

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Abstract

Abstract Populist, especially far-right populist, parties have gained votes in recent elections across Europe recently. This observation is true for Poland as well. The far-right populist party Law and Justice (PiS, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) won the parliamentary election in 2015. Next to the well-known nativist and populist messages, PiS promoted a social policy: the Family 500+ programme. Did this programme attract voters? The findings of this study lend reason to answer the question in the affirmative. The inclusion of social policies usually associated with left-wing parties might hence be a path to be explored by other far-right populist parties as well.

Citations

• The Populist Zeitgeist
• The New Politics of Resentment: Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe
• The Activation of Populist Attitudes

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• Civic Platform [wikipedia]

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