Scholar dissects voter perceptions of transnational politics
缅北禁地 political scientist Jeffrey Nonnemacher asserts that Western European national political parties use their affiliations with party families to signal their own political viewpoints
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鈥淢y goal with this paper is to tackle the question of: Do voters care if the AfD鈥檚 leadership is spending a lot of time with France鈥檚 Marine Le Pen and the National Rally? Are voters getting some sort of information from the party family label attached to a party and the party鈥檚 relationship with that label?鈥 he explains. In his paper, Nonnemacher contends that political parties in Western Europe are responsive to politics outside their home country鈥攁nd that strategic choices to embrace a larger party family label, such as radical right in the case of AfD, do influence how parties are perceived by a country鈥檚 voters.
In a recent conversation with Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine, Nonnemacher emphasized that a political party that embraces the party family signifies its commitment to the larger ideological goals associated with the party family, while parties that push back and work to distance themselves from their sister parties from other countries signal that they may not be credible champions for core issues. His answers have been lightly edited for style and clarity.
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