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- Title
Investigating the radical right's family policy agenda: evidence from six European countries.
- Authors
Giuliani, Giovanni Amerigo
- Abstract
The positions of the radical right parties (RRPs) concerning the family have generally been examined through a socio-cultural lens, but very little is known about their distributive preferences. Based on the theoretical insights from the literature on varieties of familialism and social investment, the article investigates the RRPs' family policy agenda in terms of preference and support for familialism and de-familialism. Furthermore, cross-country similarities and differences will be investigated through an explanatory framework that combines the literature on partisan politics with that on historical institutionalism. A content analysis of party manifestos has shown that the RRPs adopt a male-breadwinner policy agenda, mostly intended to please their authoritarian electorate. However, comparative empirical research has highlighted some cross-country differences. These are explained by considering the counter-feedback mechanism triggered by the policy legacies, which provides RRPs with divergent electoral incentives and disincentives to promote their family policy agenda.
- Subjects
RIGHT-wing extremism; FAMILY policy; PARTISANSHIP; FAMILIALISM; CONTENT analysis; POLITICAL competition
- Publication
Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 2023, Vol 53, Issue 2, p179
- ISSN
0048-8402
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/ipo.2022.23