Early parliamentary elections held in Spain on June 26, 2016 largely repeated the situation of the December 2015 elections. The People’s Party failed to receive enough votes to form a new government. Six months did not bring the principal parties any closer to a compromise, and on June 26, the distribution of votes hardly changed. And little has changed in terms of the readiness of the parties to form an alliance: their statements made by their leaders during the electoral campaign demonstrate ...
... economies at the expense of the German taxpayer. We can expect to see a softening of anti-immigration and anti-Islamic rhetoric. The AfD will have to push these issues if it does not want to become a mirror image of Lucke’s party. In any case, the two parties will for a time at least be vying for the same voters. Only when the Bundestag elections draw closer will we see them diverge in terms of their ideologies (some political observers have predicted that the AfD will win seats at the elections). ...
... run-up to the independence referendum, the gap between the two camps narrowed noticeably. And ten days ahead of the vote, the pro-independence voters outnumbered those who wanted Scotland to stay within the United Kingdom
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. The three leading British parties formed the Better Together movement, but the “yes” campaigners pointed out that the implied real slogan was “You are nothing without us” because the arguments of the pro-unity campaign boiled down to highlighting the problems ...
... Economic Crisis
The era of financial and economic crisis that dawned in fall 2008 and continues, albeit somewhat mitigated, to the present day, encompasses a significant number of West European countries. The liberal and conservative-leaning ruling parties, which either remain in power indefinitely or alternate with the Social Democrats, have had to look for ways out of this extremely unpleasant situation in Europe, which some countries saw face slower growth while others faced near-total economic ...
Challenged by globalization and increasing competition from new social movements that form organically via the Internet, political parties – traditionally the main vehicle for the expression of popular demands and mobilization – are rapidly changing. Due to this dramatically different environment, which is fraught with the risk that they will lose electoral support and ...
... to reverse this trend, both in terms of practical policy and its theoretical response to the problems resulting from the systemic crisis in the European and World economy.
In the early 21st century, Western Europe’s Social Democratic political parties faced the emerging trend of fading electoral support and their weakened position in executive power. As of 1 January, 2013, the Social Democrats, Socialists and Labor parties in EU member states were in the opposition in the UK, Germany, Sweden,...
... remain intact, it seems an apposite moment to assess the potential limits on the expansion of this ideology. This article is an attempt to forecast the evolution dynamics of this rightwing phenomenon, and also suggests a typology of rightwing radical parties in view of their success within the political system.
The Extreme Right: The Road to Success
In Europe, ethnic-based unrest has become as common as the regular victories of far-right and rightwing populist parties, as European states attempt to ...
Historically, European political parties are divided into the right wing, i.e. those that want to preserve the capitalist social system (conservatives, democratic Christians and liberals) and the left wing, that either want to convert capitalism into democratic socialism (social democrats,...
