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The Internal Supply-side causes for the Belated Rise of the Sweden Democrats
- Authors
- Bin, Nansae; Yi, Okyeon
- Issue Date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Korean Journal of International Studies
- Citation
- Korean Journal of International Studies, vol.13 no.1, pp. 263-290
- Description
- This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Abstract
- Although historically regarded as an unsuccessful example of an anti-immigration
party, the far-right Sweden Democrats, or Swedish Democrats
(Sverigedemokraterna), a party with questionable linkages to neo-Nazism,
have grown visibly stronger at the national level since 2006. Then, in 2014,
the party finally became the third largest in the Swedish parliament, Riksdag,
largely due to the electoral appeal of its immigration-skepticism platform. This
study aims to explain how this anti-immigration party belatedly rose to power
by shedding light on party-centric, or internal supply-side factors-leadership,
in particular-which most research has underestimated thus far. In this paper,
we contend that the Sweden Democrats, after having gone through a normalization
or legitimization process, managed to overcome the barrier of nonrespectability
and offered a credible alternative to an inflammatory anti-immigration
rhetoric. In so doing, it successfully appealed to the portion of the
electorate who were immigration-skeptics, yet left unrepresented in the existing
Swedish political sphere. Indeed, the Sweden Democrats meticulously
highlighted a clear niche regarding open immigration in Sweden and turned
it to its electoral advantage. In this paper, we purport to furnish a qualitative
analysis along with an empirical examination to test the validity of the contending
hypotheses of internal supply-side factors.
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