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Elisabeth Carter's Outputs (22)

The British Conservative Party: What just happened? And what now? (2022)
Journal Article
Carter, E. (2022). The British Conservative Party: What just happened? And what now?. Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, https://doi.org/10.24338/mip-2022340-347

This piece examines the events that shook politics in the UK in the summer of 2022. It begins by chronicling what exactly happened. Then, it explores the background and the longer-term causes of the political and financial crisis that beset the count... Read More about The British Conservative Party: What just happened? And what now?.

Right-wing Extremism/Radicalism: Reconstructing the Concept (2018)
Journal Article
Carter. (2018). Right-wing Extremism/Radicalism: Reconstructing the Concept. Journal of Political Ideologies, 23(2), 157-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2018.1451227

This article reconstructs the concept of right-wing extremism/radicalism. Using Mudde’s influential 1995 study as a foundation, it first canvasses the recent academic literature to explore how the concept has been described and defined. It suggests t... Read More about Right-wing Extremism/Radicalism: Reconstructing the Concept.

Party ideology (2016)
Book Chapter
Carter, E. (2016). Party ideology. . Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315514574-10

Parties of the extreme right are to some extent ‘masters of their own success’. That is, regardless of the political environment in which they operate and regard less of the institutional contexts within which they find them selves, their elect oral... Read More about Party ideology.

Sarah Harrison and Michael Bruter, Mapping extreme right ideology: An empirical geography of the European extreme right, reviewed by Elisabeth Carter (2014)
Journal Article
Carter, E. (2014). Sarah Harrison and Michael Bruter, Mapping extreme right ideology: An empirical geography of the European extreme right, reviewed by Elisabeth Carter. Party Politics, 20(2), 302-303. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068813519693

As the title suggests, this book sets out to position European extreme right parties within their ideological space. To do this, it first identifies two dimensions that structure this space, namely an ‘authoritarian’ dimension and a ‘negative identit... Read More about Sarah Harrison and Michael Bruter, Mapping extreme right ideology: An empirical geography of the European extreme right, reviewed by Elisabeth Carter.

The Extreme Right in Western Europe: Success or Failure? (2011)
Book
Carter, E. (2011). The Extreme Right in Western Europe: Success or Failure?. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719070488.001.0001

Parties of the extreme Right have experienced a dramatic rise in electoral support in many countries in Western Europe over the last two and a half decades. This phenomenon has been far from uniform, however, and the considerable attention that the m... Read More about The Extreme Right in Western Europe: Success or Failure?.

United Kingdom (2010)
Book Chapter
Carter, E., Loomes, G., & Carl Lundberg, T. (2010). United Kingdom. In The 2009 elections to the European Parliament country reports (177-182). Europa

Electoral Systems and Election Management (2010)
Book Chapter
Carter, E., & Farrell, D. M. (2010). Electoral Systems and Election Management. In L. LeDuc, R. G. Niemi, & P. Norris (Eds.), Comparing Democracies 3: Elections and Voting in the 21st Century. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446288740

The sine qua non of representative democracies is a process of elections that is fair and competitive. This is the role of electoral institutions, which determine how elections are fought, how the act of voting results in the election of political re... Read More about Electoral Systems and Election Management.

How European Integration Changes National Parties: Evidence from a 15-Country Study (2010)
Journal Article
Carter, E., & Poguntke, T. (2010). How European Integration Changes National Parties: Evidence from a 15-Country Study. West European Politics, 33(2), 297-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380903538930

This article examines the impact of European integration on the balance of power within national political parties. It does this by drawing on the results of a survey of key actors in up to 55 parties in the 15 pre-2004 enlargement member states. The... Read More about How European Integration Changes National Parties: Evidence from a 15-Country Study.

Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties (2009)
Journal Article
Arzheimer, K., & Carter, E. (2009). Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties. West European Politics, 32(5), 985-1011. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380903065058

This article examines the relationship between Christian religiosity and the support for radical right parties in Western Europe. Drawing on theories of electoral choice and on socio-psychological literature largely ignored by scholars of electoral b... Read More about Christian Religiosity and Voting for West European Radical Right Parties.

How (not) to operationalise subnational political opportunity structures: A critique of Kestilä and Söderlund's study of regional elections (2009)
Journal Article
ARZHEIMER, K., & CARTER, E. (2009). How (not) to operationalise subnational political opportunity structures: A critique of Kestilä and Söderlund's study of regional elections. European Journal of Political Research, 48(3), 335-358. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2009.00842.x

Based on an aggregate analysis of the French regional elections of 2004, Kestilä and Söderlund, in their 2007 article, ‘Subnational Political Opportunity Structures and the Success of the Radical Right: Evidence from the March 2004 Regional Elections... Read More about How (not) to operationalise subnational political opportunity structures: A critique of Kestilä and Söderlund's study of regional elections.

Government change, organizational continuity: The limited Europeanization of British political parties (2006)
Book Chapter
Poguntke, T., Aylott, N., Carter, E., Ladrech, R., & Richard Luther, K. (2006). Government change, organizational continuity: The limited Europeanization of British political parties. In The Europeanization of National Political Parties. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203964958-9

The question of the United Kingdom’s (UK) relationship with, and role in, the European Union (EU) has been one of the most divisive and damaging issues in British party politics since the end of the Second World War. Furthermore, although it is perha... Read More about Government change, organizational continuity: The limited Europeanization of British political parties.

European integration and internal party dynamics (2006)
Book Chapter
Poguntke, T., Aylott, N., Carter, E., Ladrech, R., & Richard Luther, K. (2006). European integration and internal party dynamics. In The Europeanization of National Political Parties. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203964958-7

Academic research on ‘Europeanization’ has become a veritable growth industry over the last decade. The number of works that have addressed this theme in one form or another has soared (see Featherstone 2003; Mair 2004) and the numerous doctoral stud... Read More about European integration and internal party dynamics.

The Europeanization of National Political Parties (Ed. by E. Carter, R. Ladrech) (2006)
Book
Carter, E., & Ladrech, R. (2007). T. Poguntke, N. Aylott, E. Carter, R. Ladrech, & K. R. Luther (Eds.). The Europeanization of National Political Parties (Ed. by E. Carter, R. Ladrech). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203964958

This is a detailed exploration of how national political parties have responded to the increasing relevance of European governance.

The Europeanization of National Political Parties is the first empirical study to examine the effects of the Europe... Read More about The Europeanization of National Political Parties (Ed. by E. Carter, R. Ladrech).

Political opportunity structures and right‐wing extremist party success (2006)
Journal Article
ARZHEIMER, K., & CARTER, E. (2006). Political opportunity structures and right‐wing extremist party success. European Journal of Political Research, 45(3), 419-443. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2006.00304.x

West European right-wing extremist parties have received a great deal of attention over the past two decades due to their electoral success. What has received less coverage, however, is the fact that these parties have not enjoyed a consistent level... Read More about Political opportunity structures and right‐wing extremist party success.

Does PR promote political extremism? Evidence from the West European parties of the extreme right1 (2004)
Journal Article
Carter, E. (2004). Does PR promote political extremism? Evidence from the West European parties of the extreme right1. Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy, 40(2), 82-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344890408523252

Focusing on the West European parties of the extreme right, this article considers the validity of the claim that proportional electoral systems promote political extremism. After a systematic, empirical examination of the relationship between electo... Read More about Does PR promote political extremism? Evidence from the West European parties of the extreme right1.

Changing Party Access to Elections (2003)
Book Chapter
Bowler, S., Carter, E., & Farrell, D. M. (2003). Changing Party Access to Elections. In Democracy Transformed? Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies (81-112). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/0199264996.003.0005

This chapter examines whether it has become easier or more difficult for political parties to participate in elections. It does this by comparing the electoral systems and the wider electoral laws (including those governing ballot access, media acces... Read More about Changing Party Access to Elections.

Proportional Representation and the Fortunes of Right-Wing Extremist Parties (2002)
Journal Article
Carter, E. L. (2002). Proportional Representation and the Fortunes of Right-Wing Extremist Parties. West European Politics, 25(3), 125-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/713601617

This article examines the relationship between electoral systems and extremist political parties. Focusing on the West European parties of the extreme right, it first investigates the extent to which district magnitude and electoral formula - the two... Read More about Proportional Representation and the Fortunes of Right-Wing Extremist Parties.