Policy positions, Issue emphasis, and the winning strategies of Far-Right parties

• In Event: Right-Wing Party Strategies in European Politics

Brief Overview

By manipulating the salience of policy issues, far-right parties can increase their vote-share more than by changing their policy positions. Emphasizing anti-EU positions is the most electorally beneficial to the far-right.

Authors

• Sofia Vasilopoulou, University of York UK

• Roi Zur, University of Essex