📢🔔Some good news amidst the pandemic:
Our article, "Protesting Parties: a comparative analysis", co-authored with Swen Hutter @swenhutter, is now published open-access in Party Politics:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…
These are some of the key contributions we make (thread 🧵1/8)
Our article, "Protesting Parties: a comparative analysis", co-authored with Swen Hutter @swenhutter, is now published open-access in Party Politics:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…
These are some of the key contributions we make (thread 🧵1/8)
Bridging the literature on party competition and protest politics, we examine the extent to which parties mobilize in the #protest arena, the types of protest events they sponsor, and the profile of the typical #ProtestingParty [2/8]
The analysis is based on protest events (@PoldemData) in 30 European countries between 2000 and 2015.
We show that party involvement depends on the dynamics in the protest arena and on context differences, such as the age of #democracy and the strength of #CivilSociety [3/8]
We show that party involvement depends on the dynamics in the protest arena and on context differences, such as the age of #democracy and the strength of #CivilSociety [3/8]
We find that relative to the average protest, party protests are less radical, larger,and more likely to address cultural issues or the functioning of the political system.
The difference is stronger in highly differentiated contexts, where party-sponsored protests are rare [4/8]
The difference is stronger in highly differentiated contexts, where party-sponsored protests are rare [4/8]
We find that a large nr of parties protests, but context differences distinguish their profile.
In highly differentiated contexts they resemble the outsider image of #MovementParties. In contexts of low differentiation, the mainstream also protests due to strategic factors. [5/8]
In highly differentiated contexts they resemble the outsider image of #MovementParties. In contexts of low differentiation, the mainstream also protests due to strategic factors. [5/8]
We argue that party involvement in the protest arena constitutes a standardized indicator for the extent to which #protest and #electoral politics are intertwined, and allow to empirically examine the differentiation of systems of interest intermediation. [6/8]
The interaction between the electoral and protest arena is a central theme in our research, on which we will continue to work in the coming years, so your feedback is more than welcome! [7/8]
On a more personal note: this is the last one of my "PhD papers", so with this, my dissertation is published, and I can legitimately call myself a doctor! 🤟🤓
Thanks for every kind friend, mentor, and colleague, who helped along the way 🥳🥳 [8/8]
Thanks for every kind friend, mentor, and colleague, who helped along the way 🥳🥳 [8/8]
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