Do They Make a Difference? The Policy Influence of Radical Right Populist Parties in Western Europe

310 Pages·2019·33.789 MB·English

by  Benjamin Biard, Laurent Bernhard, Hans-Geort Betz

Do They Make
a Difference?

Do They Make a
Difference?
The Policy Influence of Radical
Right Populist Parties
in Western Europe
Edited by Benjamin Biard,
Laurent Bernhard and Hans-Georg Betz
Published by Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd.
6 Tinworth Street, London, SE11 5AL
www.rowmaninternational.com
In partnership with the European Consortium for Political Research, Harbour House,
6–8 Hythe Quay, Colchester, CO2 8JF, United Kingdom
Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd. is an affiliate of Rowman & Littlefield
4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706, USA
With additional offices in Boulder, New York, Toronto (Canada), and Plymouth (UK)
www.rowman.com
Selection and editorial matter © Benjamin Biard, Laurent Bernhard,
and Hans-Georg Betz, 2019
Copyright in individual chapters is held by the respective chapter authors.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any
electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems,
without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote
passages in a review.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN: HB 978-1-78552-329-8
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available
ISBN 978-1-78552-329-8 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-78552-330-4 (electronic)
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of
American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper
for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction 1
Benjamin Biard and Laurent Bernhard
2 From the Margins, But Not Marginal: Putting the German
Radical Right’s Influence on Immigration Policy
in a Comparative European Context 13
Malisa Zobel and Michael Minkenberg
3 The Front National’s Influence on Immigration
during President François Hollande’s Term 37
João Carvalho
4 When Governing Is Losing Advantage: Denmark and
Finland, Two Opposite Cases of Radical Right
Populist Parties’ Influence on Policy Making 57
Nathalie Blanc-Noël
5 From Marginalization to Political Insider: The Policy
Influence of the Danish People’s Party 79
Flemming Juul Christiansen, Mikkel Bjerregaard
and Jens Peter Frølund Thomsen
v
vi Contents
6 The Northern League (1991–2018): Thriving Without
Delivering? Or Harming Southern Italy for Decades
by Its Very Existence? 95
Christophe Bouillaud
7 The Populist Performance of Urban Crisis: The Policy
Influence of Radical Right Populist Parties in Leadership
of Local Government in Austria and Italy 123
Fred Paxton
8 The Political Influence of the Austrian Freedom Party 145
Farid Hafez and Reinhard Heinisch
9 Populism and Democracy: The Best Foes? A Comparison
of the Policy Influence of Radical Right Populist Parties
in Switzerland, France and Belgium 165
Benjamin Biard
10 Who’s to Blame: Radical Right Populist Party and Mainstream
Parties’ Roles in Adoption of Welfare Chauvinist Policies 185
Juliana Chueri
11 Law and Order Populism? Assessing the Influence
of Right-wing Populist Parties on Law and Order
Policies in Europe 223
Georg Wenzelburger and Pascal D. König
12 The Radical Right in Power: A Comparative Analysis
of Their Migration Policy Influence 251
Philipp Lutz
Conclusion 273
Hans-Georg Betz and Laurent Bernhard
Index 289
About the Contributors 295
Figures
CHAPTER 2
2.1 Modelling the impact of the radical right on agenda-setting
and policy-making 16
CHAPTER 7
7.1 Increasing share of foreign nationals in Wels and Padua,
2003–2015 129
7.2 Stability of crime rate in Wels and Padua, 2010–2015 133
CHAPTER 9
9.1 Causal mechanism 169
CHAPTER 10
10.1 Number of approved legislations that changed immigrants’
entitlement to social rights from 1990 to 2014 193
10.2 Linear marginal influence of the participation of RRPPs
in parliament on the dependent variable for different levels
of government orientation, when RRPPs do not participate
in government, with 90% confidence interval 198
vii
viii Figures
CHAPTER 11
11.1 Importance of law and order issues (LOI) 230
11.2 Public spending on law and order 231
11.3 Predictive margins for RLOP. Note: Predictive margins
of LOI (y-axis) for different levels of RLOP (x-axis). Left
graph: Average LOI all mainstream parties (H1b); Right
graph: LOI issue owner (H1a) 246
11.4 RLOP and right-wing government’s policy stance. Note:
Graph to the left: Based on model 3 in Table 11.3; Graph
to the right: Based on model 4 in Table 11.3; Please note
the coding of the conditional effect is different for the two
graphs: Low values in the left graph indicate a more right-
wing government (expected positive relationship) and a zero
in the graph to the right indicates a more liberal government
that does not own the issue of law and order 247
CHAPTER 12
12.1 Pyramid plots of migration policy changes by radical right
cabinets 261
12.2 RRPPs’ influence on the numbers of reforms 263
12.3 Differentiated estimates of RRPPs’ policy influence 264
Tables
CHAPTER 2
2.1 Summary of radical right parties’ effects on agenda-setting
and policy-making 30
CHAPTER 5
5.1 Frequency of the immigration issue in electoral platforms
of selected Danish parties and generally. 1987–2011.
Percentages 85
5.2 Manifesto and coalition agreement positions on immigration
2007–2015. Index 86
5.3 Immigration Legislation in Denmark 1998–2011.
Absolute numbers (Percentages) 89
CHAPTER 6
6.1 Synthesis of LN’s influence and impact on Italian public
policies (1994–2011) 117
CHAPTER 8
8.1 Elections to the National Parliament (Lower House) 147
8.2 FPÖ claims by policy area in the 2017 election manifesto 154
ix