Political Entrepreneurs (eBook)

The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe

Sara B. Hobolt, Catherine E. De Vries (Autoren)

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2020
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20654-7 (ISBN)

Infos

How challenger parties, acting as political entrepreneurs, are changing European democraciesChallenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain, the National Rally in France, the Alternative for Germany, or the Brexit Party in Great Britain. Like disruptive entrepreneurs, these parties offer new policies and defy the dominance of established party brands. In the face of these challenges and a more volatile electorate, mainstream parties are losing their grip on power. In this book, Catherine De Vries and Sara Hobolt explore why some challenger parties are so successful and what mainstream parties can do to confront these political entrepreneurs.Drawing analogies with how firms compete, De Vries and Hobolt demonstrate that political change is as much about the ability of challenger parties to innovate as it is about the inability of dominant parties to respond. Challenger parties employ two types of innovation to break established party dominance: they mobilize new issues, such as immigration, the environment, and Euroscepticism, and they employ antiestablishment rhetoric to undermine mainstream party appeal. Unencumbered by government experience, challenger parties adapt more quickly to shifting voter tastes and harness voter disenchantment. Delving into strategies of dominance versus innovation, the authors explain why European party systems have remained stable for decades, but also why they are now increasingly under strain.As challenger parties continue to seek to disrupt the existing order, Political Entrepreneurs shows that their ascendency fundamentally alters government stability and democratic politics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 45 b/w illus. 10 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Adobe • Airo Hino • alternative for germany • Andrew Gamble • anti-austerity • anti-feminism • anti-feminist • anti-globalism • anti-immigrant • anti-immigration • ballot • ballot box • barriers to entry • Bonnie Meguid • Brand Equity • Business Model • Calculation • Case Mudde • Case study • Cas Mudde • Catherine Blaiklock • central government • Centre-left politics • Centre-right politics • centrism • Christian Democracy • Citizen Politics • Citizens (Spanish political party) • climate change denial • Coalition Government • Colin Crouch • comparative politics • Competition • Competitive advantage • Conservatism • Creative Destruction • Crisis without End? • Cultural Backlash • Customer • Danish People's Party • Democracy • Democratic Socialism • Disruptive innovation • Dominant-party system • Economic Growth • Economic Policy • Economics • Election • electoral studies • Elite • Employment • Entrepreneurship • European elections • European Integration • European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession • far-left politics • far-right politics • firm competition • first-mover advantage • Five Star Movement • Freedom Party of Austria • Geert Wilders • General Election • Government • Grand coalition (Germany) • Green Party • Hanspeter Kriesi • Herbert Kitschelt • Herfindahl Index • Ideology • Immigration • incumbent • Independent Greeks • Industrial Organization • Institution • Jae-Jae Spoon • Jean-Marie Le Pen • Joschka Fischer • Joseph Schumpeter • Left-Wing • left-wing politics • Lega Nord • Liberalism • Major party • Manifesto • Marine Le Pen • Marketing strategy • Market power • minority government • Moderate Party • Mogens Glistrup • Monopolistic Competition • Motion of no confidence • Multi-Party System • National Front • Nationalism • Nationalist • nativism • Nigel Farage • Oligopoly • Opposition to immigration • Ownership • Party competition • Party Competition between Unequals • Party for Freedom • Party Politics • Party System • Peter Mair • Pim Fortuyn • Pippa Norris • Podemos (Spanish political party) • political agenda • Political entrepreneur • Political parties • Political Party • Political Science • political spectrum • Political Survival of Small Parties in Europe • Politician • Politics • Populism • Populist • Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe • Post-democracy • proportional representation • protectionism • Radical Right • Radical right (United States) • Realigning election • Representative Democracy • Research and Development • rhetoric • right-wing • right-wing politics • right-wing populism • Ronald Inglehart • Ruling the Void • Russell Dalton • Seymour Martin Lipset • Social Class • Social Democracy • Syriza • The Establishment • The Transformation of European Social Democracy • two-party system • UK Independence Party • UKIP • ultranationalism • Unemployment • voter appeal • Voting • Voting Radical Right in Western Europe • voting system • welfare • Welfare Chauvinism • Welfare State • Western Europe • West European Politics in the Age of Globalization
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20654-6 / 0691206546
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20654-7 / 9780691206547