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Protesting Parties in Europe: A comparative analysis

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  • Borbáth, Endre
  • Hutter, Swen

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The article provides the first large-scale study of protest activities by political parties. The empirical analysis draws on original protest event data for 30 European countries based on semi-automated coding of news agencies. The article innovates by (a) proposing a standardized indicator for the extent to which protest and electoral politics relate to each other, (b) showing that parties’ involvement in protests differs across political contexts, and (c) mapping the profile of a typical party-sponsored event and a typical protesting party. Despite long-term trends toward differentiated modes of interest intermediation, the results indicate that a wide range of parties does protest. However, in highly differentiated contexts, the typical protesting party mirrors the outsider image of movement parties: it does not belong to a mainstream party family and has no government experience. By contrast, more strategic factors, such as opposition status, drive parties to the streets in less differentiated contexts.

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  • Borbáth, Endre & Hutter, Swen, 2021. "Protesting Parties in Europe: A comparative analysis," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 27(5), pages 896-908.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:espost:218880
    DOI: 10.1177/1354068820908023
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    1. Borbáth, Endre & Gessler, Theresa, 2020. "Different worlds of contention? Protest in Northwestern, Southern and Eastern Europe," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 59(4), pages 910-935.
    2. Klüver, Heike & Spoon, Jae-Jae, 2016. "Who Responds? Voters, Parties and Issue Attention," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 46(3), pages 633-654, July.
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    1. Weisskircher, Manès & Hutter, Swen & Borbáth, Endre, 2022. "Protest and Electoral Breakthrough: Challenger Party-Movement Interactions in Germany," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, issue (Latest A, pages 1-1.
    2. Joost Berkhout & Jan Beyers & Marcel Hanegraaff, 2023. "The Representative Potential of Interest Groups: Internal Voice in Post-Communist and Western European Countries," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 11(1), pages 50-64.
    3. Borbáth, Endre & Hutter, Swen & Leininger, Arndt, 2023. "Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 46(4), pages 631-651.

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