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Voting PiS: Voting Left when Voting Far-Right Populist? Cover

Voting PiS: Voting Left when Voting Far-Right Populist?

By: Pascal Siemsen  
Open Access
|Jul 2020

Abstract

Populist, especially far-right populist, parties have gained votes in recent elections across Europe recently. This observation is true for Poland as well. The far-right populist party Law and Justice (PiS, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) won the parliamentary election in 2015. Next to the well-known nativist and populist messages, PiS promoted a social policy: the Family 500+ programme. Did this programme attract voters? The findings of this study lend reason to answer the question in the affirmative. The inclusion of social policies usually associated with left-wing parties might hence be a path to be explored by other far-right populist parties as well.

Language: English
Page range: 87 - 99
Published on: Jul 20, 2020
Published by: University of Wroclaw, Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2020 Pascal Siemsen, published by University of Wroclaw, Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics
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