Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data

Jonathan Polk , Jan Rovny (1) , Ryan Bakker , Erica Edwards (2) , Liesbet Hooghe (3) , Seth Jolly , Jelle Koedam , Filip Kostelka (4) , Gary Marks (3) , Gijs Schumacher , Marco Steenbergen (5) , Milada Anna Vachudova , Marko Zilovic

1 CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS)
2 Duke University [Durham]
3 VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
4 University of Essex
5 Department for Political Science

This article addresses the variation of anti-corruption and anti-elite salience in party positioning across Europe. It demonstrates that while anti-corruption salience is primarily related to the (regional) context in which a party operates, anti-elite salience is primarily a function of party ideology. Extreme left and extreme conservative (TAN) parties are significantly more likely to emphasize anti-elite views. Through its use of the new 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey wave, this article also introduces the dataset.

Keywords: European Union; Expert survey; Political parties; Anti-elite; Corruption

Domains: Political science

Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Ryan Bakker, Erica Edwards, Liesbet Hooghe, et al.. Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data. Research & Politics, 2017, 4 (1), pp.1-9. ⟨10.1177/2053168016686915⟩. ⟨hal-02184197⟩