Featuring in depth analysis combined with cross-national analysis, this book suggests that extreme right party impact on immigration politics and policy is an outcome of the ERPs’ electoral threats to established parties alongside the agency of mainstream political elites. It also highlights the decline in the intensity of ERPs’ contagion effects on public attitudes to immigration throughout the late 2000s or the potential overstatement of this political process in the past.
This session contains multiple objectives. First, learn the critics of the discussants to improve future research. Second, to enhance critical reflection on a subject that has been neglected in political literature: ERP political impact. Thirdly, to promote connections between political analysts focused on migration studies and political parties. Likewise, the session can also strengthen interdisciplinary exchange between qualitative and quantitative approaches on this topic. The panel would be of great interest to scholars of politics of international migration, populism, extremism, European politics and comparative and party politics.
