Between party-systems and identity-politics: the populist and radical right in Estonia and Latvia

dc.contributor.authorPetsinis, Vassilis
dc.contributor.authorBraghiroli, Stefano
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-26T19:43:54Z
dc.date.available2019-06-26T19:43:54Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe article explores party-based populist and radical right looking at the cases of Latvia’s National Alliance (NA) and of the Estonian Conservative People’s Party (EKRE). The research question is: How does the intersection between the specificities of party-systems and particularistic identity-politics either facilitate or complicate the political engagements of EKRE and NA? This piece demonstrates that whereas the Latvian party-system provides the opportunity structure for the inclusion of NA as a legitimate partner into the government coalition, Estonia’s mainstream political parties keep on excluding EKRE from the halls of power. This occurrence is highly subject to the different ways that the two-party systems have been dealing with parties suspected of pro-Kremlin leanings (Estonia: Eesti Keskerakond/Centre Party; Latvia: Saskaņa/Harmony). Meanwhile, the socio-psychological campaigns of both EKRE and NA over immigration and the refugee crisis tend to interlink these two policy-areas with the collective memories of ‘colonization’ under the Soviets and the collective anxieties of becoming ‘colonized’ again by others. This socio-psychological strategy has enabled both parties to augment their public appeal.et
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2019.1569340
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10062/64608
dc.language.isoenget
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Onlineet
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/749400///MERWBKBSet
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEuropean Politics and Society;
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesset
dc.subjectpopulist and radical rightet
dc.subjectmigration crisiset
dc.subjectLatviaet
dc.subjectEstoniaet
dc.subjectBaltic Stateset
dc.subjectPopulismet
dc.subject.otherBalti riigidet
dc.subject.otherEestiet
dc.subject.otherLätiet
dc.subject.otherparemäärmusluset
dc.subject.otherrändekriiset
dc.titleBetween party-systems and identity-politics: the populist and radical right in Estonia and Latviaet
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleet

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