Open AccessAnalysis of political orientation and left-right party labelling in the European Parliament
Author(s) -
Miha Nahtigal
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
dela - oddelek za geografijo filozofske fakultete v ljubljani
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1854-1089
pISSN - 0354-0596
DOI - 10.4312/dela.50.103-127
Subject(s) - parliament , politics , labelling , cleavage (geology) , geopolitics , nationalism , left and right , political science , biology and political orientation , extreme right , position (finance) , political economy , law , sociology , economics , social science , geotechnical engineering , structural engineering , finance , fracture (geology) , engineering
This article explores the political parties in the 8th European Parliament on the basis of roll-call vote analysis. Besides the left-right divisions, we have also analysed the nationalist-globalist political cleavage. We have compared the resulting party positions with their left-right wing party labels. In addition, we have focused on inconsistencies and biased existing labels and the geopolitical interests connected with the current way of labelling. We have found out that the current way of left-right labelling privileges a globalist and liberal position, while some other political positions were not even represented. Finally, we have presented a new way of political labelling, which would also include a nationalist-globalist cleavage.