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- Title
A Welfare State for Whom? A Group-based Account of the Austrian Freedom Party's Social Policy Profile.
- Authors
Ennser‐Jedenastik, Laurenz
- Abstract
What explains the social policy profile of populist radical right parties ( PRRPs)? Building on the argument made by Mudde (2007) that socio-economic policies are secondary elements within the populist radical right ideology, this paper conjectures that the primary elements of that ideology (nativism, authoritarianism, and populism) structure the PRRP's attitudes in the social policy domain. Based on a discussion of the PRRP's core ideology a number of expectations are derived as to which groups should be viewed as deserving or undeserving of support. These expectations are examined through an analysis of the social policies put forward in the election manifestos of the Austrian Freedom Party ( FPÖ) between 1983 and 2013. The analysis confirms most of the expectations and highlights an important shift in the FPÖ's social policy agenda, from welfare populist arguments and some retrenchment proposals under Jörg Haider to strong welfare chauvinism after the leadership change in 2005.
- Subjects
AUSTRIA; FREIHEITLICHE Partei Oesterreichs; WELFARE state; NEOLIBERALISM; NATIVISM; AUSTRIAN politics &; government; SCHWEIZERISCHE Volkspartei; TWENTIETH century; TWENTY-first century; SOCIAL policy
- Publication
Swiss Political Science Review, 2016, Vol 22, Issue 3, p409
- ISSN
1424-7755
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/spsr.12218