Radical voters and parties

This course delves into the emergence of right-wing parties, exploring the factors contributing to their rise and assessing their current impact on national and European politics. By paying attention to the situation in diverse European and non-European nations, in this course we will dissect the differences between populism and extremism. In doing so, we will also learn about the complex interplay of globalization, societal modernization, xenophobia, economic insecurity, religion, and Euroscepticism that shapes the trajectory of right-wing politics. Using interactive dynamics, students will step into the roles of policy advisors, party strategists, and directors of electoral campaigns. This approach aims to deepen understanding of how radical voters are mobilized and how radical parties leverage discontent.

Event no. 148998 in the LSF

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Lecturer: Dr Rosa Navarrete

Since December 2022, Dr Rosa M. Navarrete has been working as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Political Science with a focus on European Integration and International Relations in the Department of European Social Research at Saarland University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at MZES (University of Mannheim), a research associate at the Chair of Comparative Government at the University of Mannheim, a research associate for the project "Democratic dissatisfaction in Southern Europe: the political consequences of the crisis" at the University of York and a research associate at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

She studied History (B.A. + M.A.) at the Complutense University of Madrid and completed her M.A. in Democracy and Government at the Autonomous University of Madrid. In 2019, she finished her PhD in Political Science at the University of Mannheim. In her dissertation, she studied the effect of left-right orientations on political behaviour. Her research interests include text-as-data methods, comparative politics, European politics, political behaviour and the impact of digitalisation on political attitudes.