Does adopting far-right rhetoric help the political center?

Adopting far-right language only strengthens the far right, MZES Fellow Dr Constantin Wurthmann tells DW

Medium: DW
URL of Source: Link DW

"(...) 'Of course, then you will bring radical right-wing positions into the political center,' said Wurthmann. 'It seems that active politicians apparently aren't conscious of how central their task is in preventing something like that from happening.' (...)"

People mentioned: Constantin Wurthmann

Related publication:

Krause, Werner, Denis Cohen, Tarik Abou-Chadi (2023): Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties. Political Science Research and Methods.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2022.8