Position Blurring and Issue Constraint: Understanding Radical Right Strategy in Multidimensional Competition

• In Event: Populist and Anti-Establishment Parties

Brief Overview

This study looks at the effect of issue constraint (correlation) on radical right parties’ use of and gains from strategically obfuscating economic policy stances. It finds a negative and polarising effect by issue constraint in each dimension.

Author

• Haoyu Haoyu Zhai, European University Institute