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Geert Wilders apprentice

Publisher:ISBN:
9035135342
Jaar:
2010
Taal:Aantal blz:
283
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Geert Wilders. Sorcerer's Apprentice reads like a political thriller, but in reality is a precise and well-documented description of the political career of Geert Wilders. His successful career as an assistant at the fraction vvd, die hem in 1998 would provide a parliamentary seat, was initially in a perfectly normal way. Only after the arrival of Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the VVD faction and its meteoric political career and after the brutal murder of Theo van Gogh, Geert Wilders took the life of a spectacular twist. He became, together with Hirsi Ali, suddenly a heavily guarded Dutchman. Shortly before the murder of Van Gogh had he left the VVD, and until the elections of 2006 Few believed that all input would be a success. After the premiere of Fitna he became not only the most heavily guarded politician from Europe, but also the most famous Dutchman outside Netherlands. Which explains its enormous electoral appeal _ and what moves him? This political biography makes any representation, but no judge. The book leaves the discretion of the reader.

Anti-immigrant parties in Europe: Ideological or protest vote?

Publisher:Jaar:
2000
Taal:Aantal blz:
26
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In this article we address the question whether or not the votes for anti-immigrant parties can be considered as protest votes. We define protest votes by the motives underlying electoral choices, building on earlier research done by Tillie (1995) and Van der Eijk & Franklin (1996). That research showed that ideological proximity and party size are the best predictors of party preference. On this basis we designed a typology of motives for party choice and how these motives would manifest themselves empirically. Analyzing the 1994 elections for the European Parliament for seven political systems we show that anti-immigrant parties attract no more protest votes than other parties do, with only one exception: the Dutch Centrumdemocraten.