September 5, 2025Open Access

Accommodating the Radical Right: The Electoral Costs for Social Democratic Parties

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Quasi-experimental analysis reveals support decline for Labour after adopting anti-immigration rhetoric, indicating electoral costs.

Exposure to anti-immigration rhetoric significantly shifted perceptions of Labour, making it seem more right-leaning.
Support for Labour declined among individuals following the speech, indicating substantial electoral costs.
Despite Labour's shift, the radical right Reform UK party did not gain corresponding support from these changes.
Accommodation of exclusionary rhetoric may harm social democratic parties' electoral prospects in the long term.

Turnbull‐Dugarte et al. (2025) studied this question.

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