Flutterby™! : Accommodation does not work

Cambridge University Press research note: Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties Werner Krause, Denis Cohen and Tarik Abou-Chadi

We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right. Our findings have important implications for the study of multi-party competition as they challenge what has become a core assumption of this literature: that accommodative strategies reduce niche party success.