RT Journal Article
T1 The Role of Organizational Institutionalization in Electoral Sustainability. A Comparative Analysis of the Spanish Far Right: Fuerza Nueva and VOX
A1 Ortiz Barquero, Pablo
A1 González Fernández, Manuel Tomás
A1 Ruiz Jiménez, Antonia María
K1 Far right
K1 Spain
K1 Organizational institutionalization
K1 Electoral sustainability
AB This article focuses on the most relevant far right parties since the restoration of democracy in Spain, namely, Fuerza Nueva and VOX. These two parties show divergent electoral trajectories. While the former had some ephemeral prominence during the democratic process of transition, the latter emerged in 2018 and, for the time being, seems to have become established in several political arenas. Through an in-depth qualitative examination, this research explores the role of the organizational institutionalization process in the divergent electoral sustainability of both parties. The results show that it is possible to identify a temporal link, as well as certain mechanisms, between the way in which the parties develop organizationally and their electoral sustainability. In other words, a solid organizational institutionalization process has a positive effect on electoral sustainability. Overall, these findings suggest the need to further strengthen the so-called “internalist perspective” in the agenda of the far right, which entails a more systematic view of the characteristics of the parties themselves to explain their performance.
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/16549
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/16549
LA en
NO Social Science History (2023), p. 1-23
NO Funding for open access publishing: Universidad Pablo de Olavide.
NO Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla. Departamento de Socicología
DS RIO
RD May 5, 2026