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Explaining the Rise of the UK Independence Party in the 2014 European Parliamentary Elections

Author(s) -

Priscilla L. Southwell,

Eric A. Lindgren,

Dustin Ellis

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

review of history and political science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2333-5726

pISSN - 2333-5718

DOI - 10.15640/rhps.v4n2a3

Subject(s) - victory , parliament , political science , independence (probability theory) , general election , ideology , primary election , political economy , law , public administration , politics , sociology , statistics , mathematics

This paper examines European Election Study data in order to determine the saliency and opinion of UKIP supporters, immediately following their first-place victory in the UK 2014 elections to the European Parliament. Our results suggests that these UKIP supporters were clearly were anti-EU, with a self-identified right-wing ideology.

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