Table 12 Policy supply on the dimension “Federalism” by 22 relevant Western European populist parties
Transparency and control | Left-wing populists | M5S | Right-wing populists | ||||||||||||||||||
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LINKE | LFI | Podemos | SF | SYRIZA | SP | AfD | ANEL | DF | FI/LN | FN | FPÖ | FRP | FvD | PS | PVV | SD | SVP | UK IP | VB | ||
Increase citizen information rights | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||
Publicity of parliamentary sessions | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||
Expand opposition rights | X | X | X | X | X | X | Xa | ||||||||||||||
Participation rights of civil society in legislative process | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||
Incompatibility of office and mandate | X | Ob | |||||||||||||||||||
Reporting duties/transparency in party financing | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||
Protection of whistleblowers/whistleblowing platforms | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||
Other | Xc | Xd | |||||||||||||||||||
- X: policy advocated by party, O: contrary to policy advocated by party
- aCommittee system instead of cabinet system in local governance
- bMinisters must be delegates, in order to avoid ministerial nominations as a thank you to campaign contributors
- cCompliance with electoral manifesto audit after 2 years in office which can lead to snap elections if 45% of the deputies and 15% of the electorate desire this
- dElectronic voting in the Tweede Kamer (so that individual delegates can be held responsible for their voting behavior)