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Title	Replication Data for: Does Accommodation Work? Mainstream Party Strategies and the Success of Radical Right Parties

Identifier	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GBWB8I

Creator	Krause, Werner Cohen, Denis Abou-Chadi, Tarik

Publisher	Harvard Dataverse

Description	This research note investigates how mainstream party strategies affect the success of radical right parties. It is a widespread view that mainstream party accommodation of radical right core issue positions would reduce the radical right's success. Empirical evidence for this claim, however, remains inconclusive. Using party level data as well as micro-level voter transitions between mainstream and radical right parties, we re-evaluate the effectiveness of accommodative strategies and also test whether they work contingent on specific conditions, e.g. the newness of radical right challengers or the existence of a cordon sanitaire. 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.

Subject	Social Sciences Elections and Campaigns Political Parties and Interest Groups Comparative Politics: Political Behavior

Contributor	Cohen, Denis

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