This project examines the relationship between Radical Left Populist Party (RLPP) strategy and electoral success in Western Europe by answering an important question: "In what ways do the macro-conditions under which RLPPs compete influence their success given shifts in intra-party strategy?" To answer this question, we investigate how these parties compete under varying levels of Immigration and Unemployment and break down our expectations in two directions. First, we expect these macro-conditions to, at the least, individually influence electoral success directly. Second, we expect these macro-conditions to provide an interactive effect in influencing electoral success. Using a new measure of intra-party strategy and a custom dataset composed of the ParlGov and MARPOR datasets with additional OECD, Eurostat, World Bank, and publication data, we classify parties as RLPP and analyze them using fixed effects regression methods across 19 countries. We find mixed results confirming our first expectation, but not our second expectation.

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Organisé par la Chaire de recherche en études électorales et la Chaire de recherche du Canada en démocratie électorale.

DATE: mardi 9 juin, 12h-13h