The National Front 1958-1974

Colombia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D. Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
National Front ◽  
Colombian History

What was the National Front? In the course of Colombian history, Liberals and Conservatives had, on critical occasions, put aside their partisan hatreds in order to save their country—and themselves—but the most durable constitutional construct of them all was the National Front (NF). Approved...

Populism and the rational choice model: The case of the French National Front

2021 ◽  
pp. 104346312199596
Author(s):  
François Facchini ◽  
Louis Jaeck
Keyword(s):  
Political Party ◽  
General Model ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Utility Model ◽  
National Front ◽  
General Process ◽  
Expressive Voting ◽  
Rational Choice Model ◽  
Political Norms

This article proposes a general model of partisan political dealignment based on the theory of expressive voting. It is based on the Riker and Odershook equation. Voters cast a ballot for a political party if the utility associated with expressing their support for it is more than their expressive costs. Expressive utility is modeled here as a certain utility model. Then, the model is applied to the rise of voting support in favor of French right-wing populists, the National Front (FN). We show that the fall of justification costs of FN ideology along with the decline in stigmatization costs of voting in favor of the extreme right has fostered the popularity of this party. Political dealignment here is only a particular case of a general process of political norms transgression inherited by each voter.

Sri Lanka in 2002: Turning the Corner?

Asian Survey ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amita Shastri
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
National Front ◽  
International Support ◽  
Major Progress

Embroiled in a civil war for two decades, a peace process was reinitiated in Sri Lanka with international support. Has Sri Lanka finally turned the corner from war? This article argues that major progress has been made by the United National Front government in opening a dialogue with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Yet, major hurdles remain: support by the Tigers for a political solution remains conditional, they have not laid down their arms, and negotiating an agreement about the prospective political structure promises to be problematic.

“Heritage Populism” and France’s National Front

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Reynié
Keyword(s):  
National Front

What has happened to the extreme right in Britain ?

Res Publica ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-206
Author(s):  
Anthony Heath
Keyword(s):  
European Countries ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
National Front ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
Protest Voters

Support for the extreme right in Britain has been relatively low in Britain in recent years and has not shown the surge apparent in a number of other European countries. The paper uses data from the 1979 British Election survey to examine the characteristics of care and peripheral National Front supporters at the time of their last surge in support, and then goes on to consider why support has remained low in recent years. The 1979 evidence shows that support for the National Front was strongly linked to racist attitudes but in other respects had a 'protest' character. It is suggested that the subsequent weakness of the extreme right in Britain may be due to its single-issue character and to the availability of more attractive alternatives for protest voters such as the Liberal Party.

The Making of the Creole Peace, 1958–1960

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Karl
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Revolutionary Violence ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Colombian History

This chapter discusses how the Lleras administration's political pardon and agrarian lending program extended to frontier Communists such as Manuel Marulanda an opportunity to restore their rights and livelihoods. Though Latin American historians have concentrated on the grander utopian visions of geopolitical insurgency and revolutionary politics that took shape after the Cuban revolution of 1959, the crux of Colombian politics remained in these local, regional, and national contexts. Moreover, situating peace alongside violence accordingly entails a sweeping reinterpretation of not only Colombian history but also the Latin American 1960s—ostensibly an era of revolutionary violence. A focus on peace reveals a greater coherence to the words and decisions of well-known historical figures such as Marulanda.

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