Radicalisation party in case of UKIP and SYRIZA

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Radicalisation party in case of UKIP and SYRIZA:The ideology of Euroskepticism and parties based on that ideology has not been a major focus area of researchers lately. However considering European History specially the two world wars and their foundation, it is an important area of research. Recently with the growth of parties such as UK Independence Party and Greek SYRIZA, it is important to analyze the ideologies of these parties, their foundation and how their growth can impact future of Europe. The objective of the research is to analyze the foundation, ideology and organization of these parties.

United Kingdom Independence Party is a ring-wing populist party. According to party’s own description, it is a democratic libertarian party. The current leader of the party is Nigel Farage. Party consists of one “Member of Parliament”, one member in the “House of Commons”, “three representatives in the “House of Lords”, and twenty three members in the European Parliament”. The member representation of the party makes it the largest British party in the European Parliament. Currently UKIP is divided into twelve regional groups, and current membership is reported to be of over 47,000 members. Electoral support base of the party has mainly been identified as consisting of older, and not well educated working class voters mainly bases in Southern and Eastern England. Euroscepticism is the criticism of the European Union and opposition to the process of European integration. Parties found on the basis of Euroscepticim are mostly found on the basis of the idea of nationalism. Their ideology is similar to the ideology of realists i.e. if nations start depending on alliances more than militarization they become weak and vulnerable. Thus the UKIP is against the idea of European Federation/Union under the current system because according to the party’s motto that causes the nation to be weak.  Despite the party’s apparent extremist views the pary came fourth in the number of council seats and won third in nationwide vote share in 2013 local elections. In 2015 the party won one seat in the parliament, and received 3.8 million votes, beating the liberal democrats.

SYRIZA is a leftist Greek party, and the name is an acronym that symbolizes “Coalition of the Radical left”.  After the fall of USSR, similar to other communist states, Greek communism was also divided into two hostile parties.  SYRIZA is a collation of the left-wing parties except for KKE and other left-wing ideology parties i.e. “social democrats, left-wing patriots, feminists, anti-capitalists, centrist and environmentalist groups, as well as Marxist–Leninist, Maoist, Trotskyist, Eurocommunist, Luxemburgist”. SYRIZA is headed by current Greek Prime Minister Alexis  Tsipras….