Turning Value to Vote in the Age of Post-Politics

Zolfaghari, Vahid

Turning Value to Vote in the Age of Post-Politics

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Vahid Zolfaghari

PhD in Comparative Politics, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bamberg, Munich, Germany.

Abstract

As a modern political thought inspired by life politics, multiculturalism attempts to change public opinion. It is as Westphalian citizenship leaning on the transnational and liberal dimensions of democracy. Whereas by agnostic interpretation of politics and relying on the national and security-based aspect of democracy, the radical right parties label the discourse of multiculturalism as an opponent of the open society. The contrast of such parties to multiculturalism deepened to some extent that epistemological borrowing from mainstream parties has expanded their constituencies. Accordingly, the main question of this paper is how the radical right parties mobilize the electoral voting and whether the changing politics in democratic life will survive multiculturalism? The main idea is that the rising immigration waves, economic instability, and protest politics both with multiparty and proportional representation systems lead to increasing the votes of radical right parties. Despite of turning politics to right, the institutionalization of multiculturalism will lead to getting rid of politics and guaranty the survival of this discourse. Finally, by employing the theory of group threat and the analytic-explanative method, this paper will test the mentioned hypothesis at sociological, partisan, and systematic levels.

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