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Lecture “The Electoral Success of the Radical Right in Europe: The importance of Immigration Revisited.”
November 26, 2014 at 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
| Location: | Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 448, Queen’s University, 138 Union Street, Kingston, ON |
| Cost: | Free |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Key Contact: | Maureen Bartram |
| Contact Email: | RSVP to CIDP@queensu.ca |
Centre for European Studies, EU Centre of Excellence, and Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queens’ University, are pleased to host a public lecture* at Queen’s University:
“The electoral success of the radical right in Europe: The importance of immigration revisited.”
with Daniel Stockemer, Associate Professor in Political Science, University of Ottawa
*Please find the link for the live lecture broadcast with CFRC.ca
Abstract: Immigration or the percentage of foreigners is the most widely used structural variable in models explaining the vote share for radical right-wing parties in Europe. However, there is no consensus in the literature on how the percentage of immigrants or foreigners per geographical unit relates to the electoral success for anti-immigrant parties. In this article, I show that the divergent findings might stem from an ecological fallacy problem. I highlight that it is not the structural data on the percentage of immigrants, which is used by most of the literature, but perceptions of immigration that trigger increased support for the radical right.
Key Words: Radical Right, Immigration, Europe
Daniel Stockemer is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Ottawa. His research interests include political participation, elections, social movements, right-wing extremism, democracy and democratization, women`s representation, quantitative and qualitative methods. He is author of “The Micro and Meso Level of Activism: A Comparative Case Study of Attac France and Germany,” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013). His work has been published in European Union Politics, Electoral Studies and the International Political Science Review. He received his PhD from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, in 2010.
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The event is supported, in part, by a grant from the European Union.