Parliamentary Representation in Six European Right-Wing Sovereignist Parties: Resemblance or Innovation?. Issue 3 (2nd April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Borri, Rossella; Verzichelli, Luca
• Is Part Of: Parliamentary affairs. Volume 74:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 683
• Page End: 703
• Publication Date: 2021-04-02
• Subjects: Sovereignism -- Institutionalisation -- Right-Wing Parties -- Parliamentary Party Groups; Representative government and representation -- Periodicals; Legislative bodies -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Legislative bodies; Political science; Representative government and representation; Great Britain; Periodicals; Periodicals; 328.4105
• DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsab026
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0031-2290

Abstract

Abstract: The appeal to the re-appropriation of national sovereignty has recently become the unifying trait of a heterogeneous group of right-wing parties. The underlying reasoning behind this claim is that globalised elites ignore the needs of the people—defined as a restricted and ethnically homogeneous group of natives—they are supposed to represent. After defining the perimeter of this party cluster, including populist, national conservatives and extreme-right parties, this article explores the extent to which the adoption of similar political platforms might also be reflected in a convergence of parliamentary party articulations. A qualitative account of the evolution of parliamentary representation in a few right-wing parties from Italy, Hungary and the Netherlands shows that a two-way street of institutionalisation might be at play in the complex balance between uncompromising grassroots components and a more pragmatic institutional component.