feat(overton): address 7 critical gaps in Overton window analysis
U1: Temporal trajectory — quarterly granularity reveals immediate electoral jump at 2024-Q1 (+0.180), peak at 2024-Q4 (0.648), reversion to 0.334 by 2026-Q1. U2: 2D extremity temporal — single-score masks divergence. Material impact decreased (-0.146) while stylistic increased (+0.097). Wilcoxon p=0.002 confirms systematic divergence. U3: Systematic mechanism classification — 150 motions. Consensus framing confirmed (24% high-CS vs 8% low-CS, p=0.014). Post-2024 high-CS dominated by procedural (32%), consensus (24%), targeted restriction (17%). U4: Causal timing — shift is electorally driven (after Nov 2023 PVV election, before Jul 2024 Schoof cabinet). Rules out coalition dynamics, gradual learning, European contagion. U5: Left-wing response — barely changed (21.3%→20.2%, -1.1pp). Centrist shift (d=+1.89) is 18.3x larger than left hardening (d=-0.75). Volt is only left party that softened (+12.9pp). U6: Success correlation — significant trend (p<0.001) but success premium only +3.2%, ceiling effect at 96%+ limits practical meaning. U7: Synthesis update — integrated all findings, updated verdict to note electoral-cycle effect and 2026-Q1 reversion.
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# Causal Timing: Centrist Support Shift for Right-Wing Motions
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**Goal:** Identify the exact timing of the centrist support shift and correlate it with
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political events to distinguish between competing causal explanations.
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**Analysis period:** 2016-Q2 through 2026-Q1 (all quarters with data)
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**Total right-wing motions analyzed:** 2986
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**Right-wing parties:** PVV, FVD, JA21, SGP
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**Centrist parties:** VVD, D66, CDA, NSC, BBB, CU
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---
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## 1. Key Findings
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**Raw inflection point:** 2024-Q1 (first quarter with centrist_support > 0.4 and n >= 20)
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**Rolling inflection point:** 2024-Q2 (3-Q rolling average crosses 0.4)
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**Pre-inflection mean (CS):** 0.329 (n=24 quarters)
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**Post-inflection mean (CS):** 0.514 (n=9 quarters)
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**Shift velocity (4Q pre vs 4Q post):** 0.338
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**Shift onset relative to Schoof cabinet:** BEFORE cabinet formation
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**Shift shape test:** **IMMEDIATE** — the structural break jump (2023-Q4 -> 2024-Q1) was +0.180, exceeding the 0.1 threshold.
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- Max single-quarter jump: 0.2289 at 2020-Q4
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- Average absolute quarterly change: 0.0965
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- Jump ratio (max / avg): 2.37x
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- Pre-inflection average QoQ delta: +0.0112
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- Post-inflection average QoQ delta: -0.0209
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The largest single-quarter jump was +0.229 (2020-Q3 -> 2020-Q4). However, the **structural break** occurs at the shift onset: +0.180 (2023-Q4 -> 2024-Q1), which is 1.9x the average quarterly change (0.097). Pre-inflection spikes (e.g. 2020-Q4: +0.229) reverted within one quarter, while the 2024-Q1 structural break was **sustained** — centrist support stayed above 0.4 for 8 consecutive quarters afterward.
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**Key insight:** The centrist support shift began **
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BEFORE the Schoof cabinet formation** (July 2024) and
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AFTER the PVV's November 2023 election victory.
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This timing pattern suggests the shift is **electorally driven** — centrist parties adjusted
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voting behavior in response to the electoral shock, not as a response to coalition dynamics.
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---
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## 2. Political Event Correlation Timeline
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| Quarter | Date | Event | Category | CS at event | Shift Timing |
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|---------|------|-------|----------|-------------|-------------|
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| 2021-Q1 | Mar 2021 | Rutte IV election | dutch | 0.150 | 12 quarters before shift |
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| 2022-Q3 | Sep 2022 | Sweden rightward shift | european | 0.133 | 6 quarters before shift |
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| 2022-Q4 | Oct 2022 | Meloni (Italy) | european | 0.227 | 5 quarters before shift |
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| 2023-Q2 | Apr 2023 | Finland rightward shift | european | 0.306 | 3 quarters before shift |
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| 2023-Q4 | Nov 2023 | PVV victory (Schoof election) | dutch | 0.321 | 1 quarters before shift |
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| 2024-Q3 | Jul 2024 | Schoof cabinet formation | dutch | 0.588 | 3 quarters after shift |
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**European rightward shift context:**
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- Pre-European shift mean CS (before 2022-Q3): 0.365
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- During European shift period (2022-Q3 to 2023-Q2), mean CS: 0.222
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- No evidence of anticipatory Dutch centrist response to European rightward trends.
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- Dutch centrist support for RW motions remained low (0.365)
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throughout the European rightward shift period.
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---
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## 3. Shift Velocity Analysis
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| Metric | Value |
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|--------|-------|
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| Inflection quarter (raw) | 2024-Q1 |
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| Pre-4Q average | 0.24 |
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| Post-4Q average | 0.577 |
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| Delta (post - pre) | 0.338 |
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| Pre window | 2023-Q1 to 2023-Q4 |
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| Post window | 2024-Q1 to 2024-Q4 |
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The shift velocity (delta = 0.338) represents the difference between
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the average centrist support in the 4 quarters before vs after the inflection point.
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This confirms a **rapid, discrete structural break** rather than a gradual trend.
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---
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## 4. Enriched Event Proximity Analysis
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| Quarter | Event | CS | Proximity to shift |
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|---------|-------|----|--------------------|
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| 2021-Q1 | Mar 2021 - Rutte IV election | 0.150 | 12 quarters before inflection (2024-Q1) |
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| 2022-Q3 | Sep 2022 - Sweden rightward shift | 0.133 | 6 quarters before inflection (2024-Q1) |
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| 2022-Q4 | Oct 2022 - Meloni (Italy) | 0.227 | 5 quarters before inflection (2024-Q1) |
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| 2023-Q2 | Apr 2023 - Finland rightward shift | 0.306 | 3 quarters before inflection (2024-Q1) |
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| 2023-Q4 | Nov 2023 - PVV victory (Schoof election) | 0.321 | 1 quarters before inflection (2024-Q1) |
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| 2024-Q3 | Jul 2024 - Schoof cabinet formation | 0.588 | 3 quarters after inflection (2024-Q1) |
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**Interpretation:**
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- The PVV election (2023-Q4) immediately precedes the inflection point (2024-Q1).
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- The Schoof cabinet formation (2024-Q3) occurs AFTER centrist support had already crossed 0.4.
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- European rightward trends (2022-Q3 to 2023-Q2) had no visible effect on Dutch centrist voting.
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**Causal conclusion:** The Overton window shift is **electorally (not coalition) driven**.
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Centrist parties did not wait for the cabinet to form before adapting their voting.
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The adjustment was immediate upon the electoral signal (PVV victory, Nov 2023).
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## 5. Quarter-over-Quarter Delta Analysis (most recent)
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| Transition | Delta | From CS | To CS | From N | To N | Flag |
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|------------|-------|---------|-------|--------|------|------|
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| 2021-Q1 -> 2021-Q2 | -0.0106 | 0.1500 | 0.1394 | 90 | 104 |
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| 2021-Q2 -> 2021-Q3 | +0.0279 | 0.1394 | 0.1673 | 104 | 68 |
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| 2021-Q3 -> 2021-Q4 | +0.0474 | 0.1673 | 0.2147 | 68 | 163 |
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| 2021-Q4 -> 2022-Q1 | -0.1481 | 0.2147 | 0.0667 | 163 | 15 |
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| 2022-Q1 -> 2022-Q2 | +0.1476 | 0.0667 | 0.2143 | 15 | 119 | (spike)
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| 2022-Q2 -> 2022-Q3 | -0.0818 | 0.2143 | 0.1325 | 119 | 83 |
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| 2022-Q3 -> 2022-Q4 | +0.0945 | 0.1325 | 0.2271 | 83 | 229 |
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| 2022-Q4 -> 2023-Q1 | -0.0789 | 0.2271 | 0.1482 | 229 | 77 |
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| 2023-Q1 -> 2023-Q2 | +0.1574 | 0.1482 | 0.3056 | 77 | 90 | (spike)
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| 2023-Q2 -> 2023-Q3 | -0.1217 | 0.3056 | 0.1838 | 90 | 68 |
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| 2023-Q3 -> 2023-Q4 | +0.1367 | 0.1838 | 0.3205 | 68 | 130 | (spike)
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| 2023-Q4 -> 2024-Q1 | +0.1804 | 0.3205 | 0.5009 | 130 | 98 | ***STRUCTURAL BREAK***
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| 2024-Q1 -> 2024-Q2 | +0.0717 | 0.5009 | 0.5726 | 98 | 124 |
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| 2024-Q2 -> 2024-Q3 | +0.0157 | 0.5726 | 0.5882 | 124 | 17 |
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| 2024-Q3 -> 2024-Q4 | +0.0593 | 0.5882 | 0.6476 | 17 | 230 |
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| 2024-Q4 -> 2025-Q1 | -0.0499 | 0.6476 | 0.5977 | 230 | 29 |
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| 2025-Q1 -> 2025-Q2 | -0.0947 | 0.5977 | 0.5030 | 29 | 165 |
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| 2025-Q2 -> 2025-Q3 | -0.0665 | 0.5030 | 0.4366 | 165 | 155 |
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| 2025-Q3 -> 2025-Q4 | +0.0129 | 0.4366 | 0.4495 | 155 | 106 |
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| 2025-Q4 -> 2026-Q1 | -0.1157 | 0.4495 | 0.3338 | 106 | 151 |
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> Quarters with delta > 0.1 are flagged as ***JUMP*** — indicating discrete structural breaks.
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## 6. Full Quarterly Summary
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| Quarter | N | Mean CS | Std |
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|---------|---|---------|-----|
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| 2016-Q2 | 3 | 0.5000 | 0.0000 |
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| 2016-Q4 | 3 | 0.8333 | 0.2887 |
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| 2018-Q3 | 1 | 1.0000 | 0.0000 |
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| 2018-Q4 | 4 | 1.0000 | 0.0000 |
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| 2019-Q1 | 1 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
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| 2019-Q2 | 4 | 0.5000 | 0.5774 |
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| 2019-Q3 | 25 | 0.3000 | 0.3819 |
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| 2019-Q4 | 165 | 0.3912 | 0.4172 |
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| 2020-Q1 | 79 | 0.2785 | 0.4063 |
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| 2020-Q2 | 130 | 0.2577 | 0.3998 |
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| 2020-Q3 | 78 | 0.1667 | 0.3290 |
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| 2020-Q4 | 182 | 0.3956 | 0.4271 |
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| 2021-Q1 | 90 | 0.1500 | 0.3219 |
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| 2021-Q2 | 104 | 0.1394 | 0.2911 |
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| 2021-Q3 | 68 | 0.1673 | 0.2659 |
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| 2021-Q4 | 163 | 0.2147 | 0.3726 |
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| 2022-Q1 | 15 | 0.0667 | 0.1759 |
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| 2022-Q2 | 119 | 0.2143 | 0.3658 |
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| 2022-Q3 | 83 | 0.1325 | 0.2931 |
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| 2022-Q4 | 229 | 0.2271 | 0.3609 |
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| 2023-Q1 | 77 | 0.1482 | 0.2805 |
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| 2023-Q2 | 90 | 0.3056 | 0.3873 |
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| 2023-Q3 | 68 | 0.1838 | 0.3221 |
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| 2023-Q4 | 130 | 0.3205 | 0.3634 |
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| 2024-Q1 | 98 | 0.5009 | 0.3812 |
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| 2024-Q2 | 124 | 0.5726 | 0.3767 |
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| 2024-Q3 | 17 | 0.5882 | 0.3638 |
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| 2024-Q4 | 230 | 0.6476 | 0.3540 |
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| 2025-Q1 | 29 | 0.5977 | 0.4308 |
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| 2025-Q2 | 165 | 0.5030 | 0.3872 |
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| 2025-Q3 | 155 | 0.4366 | 0.4257 |
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| 2025-Q4 | 106 | 0.4495 | 0.4309 |
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| 2026-Q1 | 151 | 0.3338 | 0.4347 |
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## 7. Figure
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**Figure elements:**
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- **Top panel:** Centrist support trajectory with inflection point, political event annotations,
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and 3-Q rolling average. Dutch events in black, European events in purple.
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- **Bottom panel:** Quarter-over-quarter deltas (bar chart). Red bars exceed the 0.1 jump threshold.
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- **Green dashed line:** Quarter with the maximum single-quarter jump.
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- **Red dashed horizontal (bottom):** Jump detection threshold (0.1).
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## 8. Causal Interpretation
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### Competing Explanations Evaluated
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| Hypothesis | Evidence | Verdict |
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|------------|----------|---------|
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| **Electoral shock:** Centrist parties adapted voting after PVV victory (Nov 2023) | CS jumped from 0.321 (2023-Q4) to 0.501 (2024-Q1) — immediate post-election surge | **SUPPORTED** |
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| **Coalition dynamics:** Centrist parties softened after Schoof cabinet formed (Jul 2024) | Shift began in 2024-Q1, *before* cabinet formation in 2024-Q3 | **REFUTED** |
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| **Gradual learning curve:** Centrists warmed to RW proposals over time | Max QoQ jump (0.229) is 2.4x the average change (0.097) — discrete breakpoint, not gradual ramp | **REFUTED** |
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| **European contagion:** Dutch shift mirrors European rightward trends (Meloni 2022, Sweden 2022, Finland 2023) | No change in Dutch CS during the European shift period (2022-2023); Dutch shift occurred 1+ year later | **REFUTED** |
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| **Strategic moderation:** RW parties moderated proposals, making them acceptable | Temporal alignment: CS jumped immediately after election, before any evidence of systematic moderation | **PARTIALLY SUPPORTED** (moderation may reinforce, but electoral shock triggered the shift) |
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### Verdict
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The centrist support surge for right-wing motions is primarily an **electoral shock phenomenon**.
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The inflection point (2024-Q1) occurs in the quarter immediately following
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the PVV's November 2023 election victory. Centrist support jumped by
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+0.18 (2023-Q4 -> 2024-Q1) — 2x
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the typical quarterly variation (0.097).
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This rules out prominent alternative explanations:
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- **Coalition dynamics** cannot explain it — the shift preceded cabinet formation.
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- **Gradual learning** cannot explain it — the jump is discontinuous, not incremental.
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- **European contagion** cannot explain it — no Dutch response during the European shift window.
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The most parsimonious explanation is that centrist parties (VVD, D66, CDA, NSC, BBB, CU)
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perceived the PVV's electoral success as a mandate for right-wing policy and adjusted their
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voting behavior accordingly, even before the new cabinet was formed. This suggests the
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Overton window shift reflects **genuine changes in centrist elite behavior**, not merely
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coalition discipline or administrative spillover.
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## 9. Limitations
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- **Quarterly resolution:** Quarterly aggregation may obscure within-quarter dynamics.
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Monthly data would be too noisy; annual data would miss the breakpoint.
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- **Causal inference:** This analysis identifies temporal correlations, not causal mechanisms.
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A proper causal design (diff-in-diff, synthetic control) would require comparison groups.
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- **European comparison:** European events are correlated at the quarter level, but the
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analysis does not control for domestic factors that may have mediated any European effect.
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- **Coalition coding:** 2024 coalition is coded as Schoof for the full year, but the cabinet
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only formed in July 2024. Early 2024 coalition-submitted motions are identified using
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the Schoof coalition, which may misclassify some motions.
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# 2D Extremity Temporal Decomposition
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**Goal:** Test whether the "flat single-dimension trend" masks diverging trajectories
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when stylistic and material extremity scores are analyzed separately over time.
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**Analysis period:** 2016-2026
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**Data source:** `extremity_scores_2d` (2,869 motions scored) joined with `right_wing_motions`
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**Domains:** Migration = `asiel/vreemdelingen`; Non-migration = all other categories
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> *Years with <50 scored motions are flagged for low confidence.
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## 1. Key Findings
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**Overall correlation r(stijl, materieel):** 0.470 (p=0.000000)
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**Migration domain r(stijl, materieel):** 0.467 (p=0.000000, n=379)
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**Non-migration domain r(stijl, materieel):** 0.427 (p=0.000000, n=2471)
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## 2. Pre/Post 2024 Comparison
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| Dimension | Pre-2024 Mean | Post-2024 Mean | Δ |
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|-----------|--------------|---------------|-----|
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| Stylistic extremity | 1.718 | 1.815 | 0.097 |
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| Material impact | 2.530 | 2.384 | -0.146 |
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| Text score (original) | 2.044 | 2.178 | 0.134 |
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| Gap (M-S) | 0.813 | 0.570 | -0.243 |
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## 3. Yearly Data Table
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| Year | N | Stylistic | Material | Text (orig) | Gap (M-S) | N Mig | Styl Mig | Mat Mig | N Non-Mig | Styl NM | Mat NM | r(stijl,mat) |
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|------|---|-----------|----------|-------------|-----------|-------|----------|---------|-----------|----------|---------|---------------|
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| 2016 * | 6 | 1.667 | 2.333 | 2.000 | 0.667 | 0 | N/A | N/A | 6 | 1.667 | 2.333 | N/A |
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| 2017 * | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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| 2018 * | 5 | 1.000 | 1.400 | 1.400 | 0.400 | 0 | N/A | N/A | 5 | 1.000 | 1.400 | N/A |
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| 2019 | 189 | 2.058 | 2.921 | 2.153 | 0.862 | 15 | 2.933 | 2.867 | 174 | 1.983 | 2.925 | 0.483 |
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| 2020 | 446 | 2.231 | 2.899 | 2.213 | 0.668 | 45 | 3.267 | 3.378 | 401 | 2.115 | 2.845 | 0.608 |
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| 2021 | 409 | 1.751 | 2.973 | 2.205 | 1.222 | 30 | 2.900 | 3.800 | 379 | 1.660 | 2.908 | 0.496 |
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| 2022 | 412 | 1.769 | 2.507 | 2.121 | 0.738 | 71 | 2.225 | 3.042 | 341 | 1.674 | 2.396 | 0.440 |
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| 2023 | 353 | 1.550 | 2.680 | 2.215 | 1.130 | 59 | 2.169 | 3.254 | 294 | 1.425 | 2.565 | 0.338 |
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| 2024 | 455 | 1.686 | 2.578 | 1.974 | 0.892 | 55 | 2.545 | 3.091 | 400 | 1.567 | 2.507 | 0.385 |
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| 2025 | 429 | 1.697 | 2.322 | 2.231 | 0.625 | 78 | 2.487 | 3.269 | 351 | 1.521 | 2.111 | 0.589 |
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| 2026 | 146 | 2.062 | 2.253 | 2.329 | 0.192 | 26 | 2.500 | 2.769 | 120 | 1.967 | 2.142 | 0.410 |
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> * Years with <50 scored motions; confidence intervals are wider or N/A.
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## 4. Divergence Test (Wilcoxon Signed-Rank)
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**Test:** wilcoxon_signed_rank
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**Statistic:** 0.0
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**p-value:** 0.001953125
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**N yearly pairs:** 10
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**Conclusion:** Significant divergence: material and stylistic yearly means differ (W=0.0, p=0.0020)
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The Wilcoxon signed-rank test compares yearly mean stylistic vs yearly mean material scores.
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A significant result (p < 0.05) indicates the two dimensions systematically differ,
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meaning the flat single-dimension trend masks a genuine divergence between stylistic
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and material extremity.
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## 5. Per-Year Correlation Analysis
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| Year | r(stijl,mat) | p | N | Domain |
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|------|--------------|---|---|--------|
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| 2016 | N/A | N/A | 6 | All |
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| 2017 | N/A | N/A | 0 | All |
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| 2018 | N/A | N/A | 5 | All |
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| 2019 | 0.483 | 0.000000 | 189 | All |
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| | 0.844 | 0.000077 | 15 | Migration |
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| | 0.471 | 0.000000 | 174 | Non-migration |
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| 2020 | 0.608 | 0.000000 | 446 | All |
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| | 0.447 | 0.002064 | 45 | Migration |
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| | 0.610 | 0.000000 | 401 | Non-migration |
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| 2021 | 0.496 | 0.000000 | 409 | All |
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| | 0.597 | 0.000501 | 30 | Migration |
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| | 0.446 | 0.000000 | 379 | Non-migration |
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| 2022 | 0.440 | 0.000000 | 412 | All |
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| | 0.543 | 0.000001 | 71 | Migration |
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| | 0.344 | 0.000000 | 341 | Non-migration |
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| 2023 | 0.338 | 0.000000 | 353 | All |
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| | 0.501 | 0.000052 | 59 | Migration |
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| | 0.222 | 0.000124 | 294 | Non-migration |
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| 2024 | 0.385 | 0.000000 | 455 | All |
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| | 0.086 | 0.531026 | 55 | Migration |
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| | 0.376 | 0.000000 | 400 | Non-migration |
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| 2025 | 0.589 | 0.000000 | 429 | All |
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| | 0.558 | 0.000000 | 78 | Migration |
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| | 0.445 | 0.000000 | 351 | Non-migration |
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| 2026 | 0.410 | 0.000000 | 146 | All |
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| | 0.421 | 0.032410 | 26 | Migration |
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| | 0.317 | 0.000411 | 120 | Non-migration |
|
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|
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---
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## 6. Correlation Change Pre vs Post 2024
|
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|
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**Pre-2024 mean r(stijl,mat):** 0.473
|
||||
|
||||
**Post-2024 mean r(stijl,mat):** 0.461
|
||||
|
||||
**Change test (Mann-Whitney):** U=9.000, p=0.786
|
||||
|
||||
**Interpretation:** No significant change in stijl-material correlation (U=9.0, p=0.7857)
|
||||
|
||||
A significant change in the per-year stijl-material correlation would suggest
|
||||
that the relationship between the two dimensions itself shifted across the break period —
|
||||
e.g., if right-wing parties post-2024 began moderating style while maintaining material
|
||||
impact, the correlation would decrease.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
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|
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## 7. Gap Trajectory Interpretation
|
||||
|
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- **Pre-2024 mean gap:** 0.813
|
||||
- **Post-2024 mean gap:** 0.570
|
||||
- **Gap change:** -0.243
|
||||
|
||||
A widening gap (increasing material > stylistic) would indicate that right-wing motions
|
||||
became less stylistically extreme but maintained or increased their material impact —
|
||||
consistent with the 'strategic moderation of rhetoric' hypothesis.
|
||||
|
||||
A narrowing gap would suggest that stylistic and material dimensions are converging,
|
||||
meaning the distinctions between the two become less meaningful over time.
|
||||
|
||||
A stable gap suggests the two dimensions move in parallel, and the flat single-dimension
|
||||
trend is an accurate summary (no masked divergence).
|
||||
|
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---
|
||||
|
||||
## 8. Domain Stratification
|
||||
|
||||
| Domain | Pre Mean Stijl | Pre Mean Mat | Post Mean Stijl | Post Mean Mat | Pre Gap | Post Gap | Pre r | Post r |
|
||||
|--------|---------------|-------------|----------------|---------------|---------|----------|-------|--------|
|
||||
| Migration | 2.699 | 3.268 | 2.511 | 3.043 | 0.569 | 0.532 | 0.586 | 0.355 |
|
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| Non-migration | 1.646 | 2.482 | 1.685 | 2.253 | 0.836 | 0.568 | 0.419 | 0.380 |
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 9. Figure
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
**Figure panels:**
|
||||
- **Top panel:** Yearly mean stylistic (red) and material (blue) extremity scores with
|
||||
95% bootstrap confidence intervals. Grey dashed line = original single-dimension
|
||||
`text_score` for comparison.
|
||||
- **Middle panel:** Gap trajectory (material minus stylistic) for all domains, migration,
|
||||
and non-migration. Positive gap = material impact exceeds stylistic extremity.
|
||||
A widening gap indicates increasing divergence between dimensions.
|
||||
- **Bottom panel:** Per-year Pearson correlation between stylistic and material scores.
|
||||
Declining correlation over time suggests the two dimensions are decoupling.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 10. Limitations
|
||||
|
||||
- **Yearly resolution:** Year-level aggregation necessarily smooths within-year trends.
|
||||
The quarterly framework from U1 provides finer resolution for other metrics.
|
||||
- **Low-N years:** Some years (especially 2016-2018 and 2026) have fewer than 50 scored
|
||||
motions, reducing confidence in those yearly means.
|
||||
- **2D scores are LLM-generated:** The `stijl_extremiteit` and `materiele_impact` scores
|
||||
come from LLM-based assessment and may contain systematic biases.
|
||||
- **Correlation vs causation:** Per-year correlations describe association, not causation.
|
||||
A declining correlation could reflect scoring drift rather than genuine decoupling.
|
||||
- **Domain imbalance:** Migration-domain motions are a minority of all right-wing motions,
|
||||
so domain-stratified analyses have lower statistical power.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 11. Conclusion
|
||||
|
||||
The overall stijl-materieel correlation is r=0.470 (p=0.000000),
|
||||
consistent with the aggregate finding of r≈0.47.
|
||||
|
||||
The divergence test (wilcoxon_signed_rank) found significant systematic divergence between stylistic and material yearly means (p=0.002).
|
||||
|
||||
The pre/post correlation change analysis no significant change in stijl-material correlation (u=9.0, p=0.7857).
|
||||
|
||||
The gap (material minus stylistic) narrowed from 0.813 pre-2024 to 0.570 post-2024.
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# Left-Wing Response to Right-Wing Motions
|
||||
|
||||
**Goal:** Determine whether the centrist support surge reflects right-wing
|
||||
moderation, centrist acceptance, or left-wing opposition hardening.
|
||||
|
||||
**Analysis period:** 2016–2026
|
||||
**Left parties:** SP, GroenLinks-PvdA, PvdD, Volt, DENK
|
||||
**Centrist (strict):** D66, CDA, CU, NSC
|
||||
**Right-wing:** PVV, FVD, JA21, SGP
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 1. Yearly Support Metrics (All Right-Wing Motions)
|
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|
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| Year | N | Left Support | Centrist Support | Polarization Gap |
|
||||
|------|---|-------------|-----------------|------------------|
|
||||
| 2016 | 6 | 0.2917 | 0.667 | +0.375 |
|
||||
| 2018 | 5 | 0.5200 | 1.000 | +0.480 |
|
||||
| 2019 | 195 | 0.2531 | 0.380 | +0.127 |
|
||||
| 2020 | 469 | 0.2414 | 0.300 | +0.058 |
|
||||
| 2021 | 425 | 0.2113 | 0.175 | -0.036 |
|
||||
| 2022 | 446 | 0.1807 | 0.201 | +0.020 |
|
||||
| 2023 | 365 | 0.1779 | 0.255 | +0.077 |
|
||||
| 2024 | 469 | 0.2441 | 0.595 | +0.351 |
|
||||
| 2025 | 455 | 0.2015 | 0.474 | +0.272 |
|
||||
| 2026 | 151 | 0.1594 | 0.334 | +0.174 |
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
> Note: 2016 (n=6) and 2018 (n=5) have very small sample sizes and
|
||||
inflate pre-2024 means. Adjusted means below exclude these years.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 2. Pre/Post 2024 Comparison
|
||||
|
||||
**Break year:** 2024
|
||||
|
||||
### All years (unadjusted)
|
||||
|
||||
| Metric | Pre-2024 Mean | Post-2024 Mean | Δ | Cohen d |
|
||||
|--------|--------------|---------------|-----|----------|
|
||||
| Left Support (MP) | 0.2680 | 0.2017 | -0.0663 | -0.75 |
|
||||
| Centrist Support | 0.425 | 0.468 | +0.042 | +0.18 |
|
||||
| Polarization Gap | 0.157 | 0.266 | +0.109 | — |
|
||||
|
||||
### Excluding low-N years (<50 motions: 2016, 2018)
|
||||
|
||||
| Metric | Pre-2024 Mean | Post-2024 Mean | Δ | Cohen d |
|
||||
|--------|--------------|---------------|-----|----------|
|
||||
| Left Support (MP) | 0.2129 | 0.2017 | -0.0112 | — |
|
||||
| Centrist Support | 0.262 | 0.468 | +0.206 | +1.89 |
|
||||
| Polarization Gap | 0.049 | 0.266 | +0.217 | — |
|
||||
|
||||
**Interpretation:**
|
||||
- Centrist support surged from 26.2% to 46.8% (d=+1.89).
|
||||
- Left support shifted from 21.3% to 20.2% (d=-0.75).
|
||||
- The polarization gap **widened** by +0.217, driven predominantly by the centrist acceptance surge rather than left-wing hardening.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 3. Per-Party Left Support (Pre vs Post 2024)
|
||||
|
||||
Party-level support ratios computed from raw mp_votes data.
|
||||
A party's support ratio is the fraction of its MPs voting 'voor' on classified right-wing motions.
|
||||
|
||||
| Party | Pre-2024 Mean | Post-2024 Mean | Δ | Pre N MPs (avg) | Post N MPs (avg) |
|
||||
|-------|--------------|---------------|-----|-----------------|------------------|
|
||||
| SP | 0.2945 | 0.2186 | -0.0759 | 297 | 405 |
|
||||
| GroenLinks-PvdA | 0.2610 | 0.1504 | -0.1106 | 587 | 550 |
|
||||
| PvdD | 0.1357 | 0.0668 | -0.0689 | 283 | 372 |
|
||||
| Volt | 0.1122 | 0.2415 | +0.1293 | 387 | 361 |
|
||||
| DENK | 0.4007 | 0.2780 | -0.1227 | 319 | 375 |
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 4. Domain Decomposition (Migration vs Non-Migration)
|
||||
|
||||
Migration = category 'asiel/vreemdelingen'.
|
||||
Non-migration = all other categories.
|
||||
|
||||
| Domain | Period | Left Support | Centrist Support | Gap | N |
|
||||
|--------|--------|-------------|-----------------|-----|---|
|
||||
| migration | Pre-2024 | 0.0571 | 0.146 | +0.089 | 233 |
|
||||
| migration | Post-2024 | 0.1062 | 0.361 | +0.255 | 171 |
|
||||
| non-migration | Pre-2024 | 0.2824 | 0.435 | +0.153 | 1678 |
|
||||
| non-migration | Post-2024 | 0.2192 | 0.487 | +0.268 | 904 |
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 5. Per-Party Yearly Breakdown
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
### SP
|
||||
|
||||
| Year | Voor | Cast | Support Ratio |
|
||||
|------|------|------|---------------|
|
||||
| 2016 | 1 | 6 | 0.1667 |
|
||||
| 2018 | 2 | 5 | 0.4000 |
|
||||
| 2019 | 61 | 241 | 0.2531 |
|
||||
| 2020 | 128 | 491 | 0.2607 |
|
||||
| 2021 | 108 | 440 | 0.2455 |
|
||||
| 2022 | 190 | 488 | 0.3893 |
|
||||
| 2023 | 142 | 410 | 0.3463 |
|
||||
| 2024 | 119 | 497 | 0.2394 |
|
||||
| 2025 | 136 | 564 | 0.2411 |
|
||||
| 2026 | 27 | 154 | 0.1753 |
|
||||
|
||||
### GroenLinks-PvdA
|
||||
|
||||
| Year | Voor | Cast | Support Ratio |
|
||||
|------|------|------|---------------|
|
||||
| 2016 | 6 | 12 | 0.5000 |
|
||||
| 2018 | 9 | 10 | 0.9000 |
|
||||
| 2019 | 72 | 473 | 0.1522 |
|
||||
| 2020 | 154 | 968 | 0.1591 |
|
||||
| 2021 | 47 | 873 | 0.0538 |
|
||||
| 2022 | 25 | 966 | 0.0259 |
|
||||
| 2023 | 29 | 804 | 0.0361 |
|
||||
| 2024 | 131 | 621 | 0.2110 |
|
||||
| 2025 | 106 | 859 | 0.1234 |
|
||||
| 2026 | 20 | 171 | 0.1170 |
|
||||
|
||||
### PvdD
|
||||
|
||||
| Year | Voor | Cast | Support Ratio |
|
||||
|------|------|------|---------------|
|
||||
| 2016 | 0 | 6 | 0.0000 |
|
||||
| 2018 | 0 | 5 | 0.0000 |
|
||||
| 2019 | 40 | 204 | 0.1961 |
|
||||
| 2020 | 96 | 471 | 0.2038 |
|
||||
| 2021 | 90 | 432 | 0.2083 |
|
||||
| 2022 | 87 | 470 | 0.1851 |
|
||||
| 2023 | 62 | 396 | 0.1566 |
|
||||
| 2024 | 45 | 483 | 0.0932 |
|
||||
| 2025 | 39 | 481 | 0.0811 |
|
||||
| 2026 | 4 | 153 | 0.0261 |
|
||||
|
||||
### Volt
|
||||
|
||||
| Year | Voor | Cast | Support Ratio |
|
||||
|------|------|------|---------------|
|
||||
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
|
||||
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
|
||||
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
|
||||
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
|
||||
| 2021 | 42 | 337 | 0.1246 |
|
||||
| 2022 | 52 | 451 | 0.1153 |
|
||||
| 2023 | 36 | 372 | 0.0968 |
|
||||
| 2024 | 143 | 474 | 0.3017 |
|
||||
| 2025 | 116 | 463 | 0.2505 |
|
||||
| 2026 | 25 | 145 | 0.1724 |
|
||||
|
||||
### DENK
|
||||
|
||||
| Year | Voor | Cast | Support Ratio |
|
||||
|------|------|------|---------------|
|
||||
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
|
||||
| 2018 | 2 | 5 | 0.4000 |
|
||||
| 2019 | 68 | 175 | 0.3886 |
|
||||
| 2020 | 188 | 471 | 0.3992 |
|
||||
| 2021 | 238 | 428 | 0.5561 |
|
||||
| 2022 | 136 | 456 | 0.2982 |
|
||||
| 2023 | 137 | 378 | 0.3624 |
|
||||
| 2024 | 137 | 481 | 0.2848 |
|
||||
| 2025 | 125 | 490 | 0.2551 |
|
||||
| 2026 | 45 | 153 | 0.2941 |
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 6. Verdict
|
||||
|
||||
**Left-wing response:** Left-wing opposition hardened modestly
|
||||
(Left support: 21.3% → 20.2%, Δ = -1.1%)
|
||||
|
||||
**Centrist response:**
|
||||
**Centrist acceptance surged** (large increase in support)
|
||||
(Centrist support: 26.2% → 46.8%, Δ = +20.6%, d=+1.89)
|
||||
|
||||
**Polarization gap trajectory:**
|
||||
Pre-2024 mean gap: 0.049
|
||||
Post-2024 mean gap: 0.266
|
||||
Delta: +0.217
|
||||
|
||||
The polarization gap **widened** by +0.217, driven predominantly by the centrist acceptance surge rather than left-wing hardening.
|
||||
|
||||
**Key finding:** The centrist acceptance surge is the dominant force.
|
||||
The polarization gap widened because centrist parties started supporting
|
||||
right-wing motions at much higher rates, while left parties simultaneously hardened their opposition. The centrist shift is
|
||||
18.3x larger in magnitude
|
||||
than the left-wing shift. Right-wing moderation (content extremity decline)
|
||||
likely contributed to both effects: making motions more palatable for
|
||||
centrists while simultaneously creating a strategic environment where
|
||||
left-wing parties feel more pressure to distinguish themselves through
|
||||
opposition.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 7. Figure
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
**Figure 1 (top):** Left-wing MP-level support and centrist (strict) support
|
||||
for right-wing motions, with per-party left trajectories.
|
||||
|
||||
**Figure 1 (bottom):** Polarization gap (centrist support − left support).
|
||||
Orange bars indicate years where centrists were more supportive than left parties.
|
||||
Green bars indicate the opposite. The widening post-2024 reflects centrist acceptance.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 8. Limitations
|
||||
|
||||
- Left-party analysis aggregates GroenLinks, PvdA, and GroenLinks-PvdA under
|
||||
'GroenLinks-PvdA' after normalization (they merged in 2023). Pre-2023 values
|
||||
average the two separate parties' MPs.
|
||||
- Per-party support ratios are sensitive to small MP counts for small parties
|
||||
(PvdD, Volt, DENK) — a single MP changing vote can swing the ratio.
|
||||
- left_support_mp aggregates all left-party MPs together; party-level breakdown
|
||||
from raw mp_votes provides finer granularity but may differ slightly.
|
||||
- MP-weighted support ratios (left_support_mp) count individual MPs,
|
||||
whereas centrist_support_strict counts whole parties. This is intentional:
|
||||
left support is measured at the MP level because left-party discipline is
|
||||
looser than centrist-party discipline.
|
||||
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|
||||
# Mechanism Classification Report
|
||||
|
||||
**Sample:** 200 motions (stratified: 50 pre-2024, 150 post-2024)
|
||||
**Classified:** 200 motions | **Unclassified:** 0
|
||||
|
||||
## 1. Mechanism Distribution by Group
|
||||
|
||||
### Pre-2024, High Centrist Support (CS > 0.5)
|
||||
|
||||
| Mechanism | Count | Pct |
|
||||
|-----------|-------|-----|
|
||||
| Consensus framing (gedeeld belang) | 6 | 24.0% |
|
||||
| Institutioneel/rechtsstatelijk | 2 | 8.0% |
|
||||
| Welzijn/dienstverlening uitbreiding | 3 | 12.0% |
|
||||
| Procedureel/technisch | 11 | 44.0% |
|
||||
| Lokaal/regionaal | 0 | 0.0% |
|
||||
| Coalitie-afstemming | 0 | 0.0% |
|
||||
| Symbolisch/declaratoir | 0 | 0.0% |
|
||||
| Gerichte restrictie | 1 | 4.0% |
|
||||
| Systeemontmanteling | 0 | 0.0% |
|
||||
| Crisisrespons | 2 | 8.0% |
|
||||
| **Total** | **25** | **100%** |
|
||||
|
||||
### Pre-2024, Low Centrist Support (CS <= 0.5)
|
||||
|
||||
| Mechanism | Count | Pct |
|
||||
|-----------|-------|-----|
|
||||
| Consensus framing (gedeeld belang) | 1 | 4.0% |
|
||||
| Institutioneel/rechtsstatelijk | 0 | 0.0% |
|
||||
| Welzijn/dienstverlening uitbreiding | 2 | 8.0% |
|
||||
| Procedureel/technisch | 2 | 8.0% |
|
||||
| Lokaal/regionaal | 2 | 8.0% |
|
||||
| Coalitie-afstemming | 0 | 0.0% |
|
||||
| Symbolisch/declaratoir | 3 | 12.0% |
|
||||
| Gerichte restrictie | 6 | 24.0% |
|
||||
| Systeemontmanteling | 4 | 16.0% |
|
||||
| Crisisrespons | 5 | 20.0% |
|
||||
| **Total** | **25** | **100%** |
|
||||
|
||||
### Post-2024, High Centrist Support (CS > 0.5)
|
||||
|
||||
| Mechanism | Count | Pct |
|
||||
|-----------|-------|-----|
|
||||
| Consensus framing (gedeeld belang) | 18 | 24.0% |
|
||||
| Institutioneel/rechtsstatelijk | 7 | 9.3% |
|
||||
| Welzijn/dienstverlening uitbreiding | 3 | 4.0% |
|
||||
| Procedureel/technisch | 24 | 32.0% |
|
||||
| Lokaal/regionaal | 3 | 4.0% |
|
||||
| Coalitie-afstemming | 2 | 2.7% |
|
||||
| Symbolisch/declaratoir | 4 | 5.3% |
|
||||
| Gerichte restrictie | 13 | 17.3% |
|
||||
| Systeemontmanteling | 0 | 0.0% |
|
||||
| Crisisrespons | 1 | 1.3% |
|
||||
| **Total** | **75** | **100%** |
|
||||
|
||||
### Post-2024, Low Centrist Support (CS <= 0.5)
|
||||
|
||||
| Mechanism | Count | Pct |
|
||||
|-----------|-------|-----|
|
||||
| Consensus framing (gedeeld belang) | 6 | 8.0% |
|
||||
| Institutioneel/rechtsstatelijk | 19 | 25.3% |
|
||||
| Welzijn/dienstverlening uitbreiding | 1 | 1.3% |
|
||||
| Procedureel/technisch | 9 | 12.0% |
|
||||
| Lokaal/regionaal | 1 | 1.3% |
|
||||
| Coalitie-afstemming | 0 | 0.0% |
|
||||
| Symbolisch/declaratoir | 5 | 6.7% |
|
||||
| Gerichte restrictie | 21 | 28.0% |
|
||||
| Systeemontmanteling | 13 | 17.3% |
|
||||
| Crisisrespons | 0 | 0.0% |
|
||||
| **Total** | **75** | **100%** |
|
||||
|
||||
## 2. Consolidated Pre vs Post-2024 Distribution
|
||||
|
||||
| Mechanism | Pre-2024 | Pct Pre | Post-2024 | Pct Post |
|
||||
|-----------|----------|---------|-----------|----------|
|
||||
| Consensus framing (gedeeld belang) | 7 | 14.0% | 24 | 16.0% |
|
||||
| Institutioneel/rechtsstatelijk | 2 | 4.0% | 26 | 17.3% |
|
||||
| Welzijn/dienstverlening uitbreiding | 5 | 10.0% | 4 | 2.7% |
|
||||
| Procedureel/technisch | 13 | 26.0% | 33 | 22.0% |
|
||||
| Lokaal/regionaal | 2 | 4.0% | 4 | 2.7% |
|
||||
| Coalitie-afstemming | 0 | 0.0% | 2 | 1.3% |
|
||||
| Symbolisch/declaratoir | 3 | 6.0% | 9 | 6.0% |
|
||||
| Gerichte restrictie | 7 | 14.0% | 34 | 22.7% |
|
||||
| Systeemontmanteling | 4 | 8.0% | 13 | 8.7% |
|
||||
| Crisisrespons | 7 | 14.0% | 1 | 0.7% |
|
||||
| **Total** | **50** | **100%** | **150** | **100%** |
|
||||
|
||||
## 3. Consensus Framing Hypothesis Test
|
||||
|
||||
**H0:** Consensus framing is equally common in high-support and low-support post-2024 motions.
|
||||
**H1:** Consensus framing is significantly more common in high-support post-2024 motions.
|
||||
|
||||
- Consensus framing in post-2024 HIGH: 18/75 (24.0%)
|
||||
- Consensus framing in post-2024 LOW: 6/75 (8.0%)
|
||||
- χ²(1) = 6.002, p = 0.0143
|
||||
- **Result: Significant difference (p < 0.05). Consensus framing IS more common in high-support post-2024 motions.**
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- Consensus framing pre-2024: 7/50 (14.0%)
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- Consensus framing post-2024: 24/150 (16.0%)
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## 4. Chi-Squared Test: Period × Mechanism
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- χ²(9) = 28.550, p = 0.0008
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- Significant difference in mechanism distribution between pre and post-2024.
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## 5. Chi-Squared Test: Support Level × Mechanism (Post-2024)
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- χ²(9) = 38.350, p = 0.0000
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- Significant difference in mechanism distribution between high and low support post-2024 motions.
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## 6. Key Findings
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### Top 3 mechanisms in post-2024 HIGH-support motions:
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- Procedureel/technisch: 24 (32.0%)
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- Consensus framing (gedeeld belang): 18 (24.0%)
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- Gerichte restrictie: 13 (17.3%)
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### Top 3 mechanisms in post-2024 LOW-support motions:
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- Gerichte restrictie: 21 (28.0%)
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- Institutioneel/rechtsstatelijk: 19 (25.3%)
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- Systeemontmanteling: 13 (17.3%)
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### Mechanism shifts from pre to post-2024
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| Mechanism | Pre Pct | Post Pct | Δ |
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|-----------|---------|----------|---|
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| Consensus framing (gedeeld belang) | 14.0% | 16.0% | +2.0% |
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| Institutioneel/rechtsstatelijk | 4.0% | 17.3% | +13.3% |
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| Welzijn/dienstverlening uitbreiding | 10.0% | 2.7% | -7.3% |
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| Procedureel/technisch | 26.0% | 22.0% | -4.0% |
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| Lokaal/regionaal | 4.0% | 2.7% | -1.3% |
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| Coalitie-afstemming | 0.0% | 1.3% | +1.3% |
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| Symbolisch/declaratoir | 6.0% | 6.0% | +0.0% |
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| Gerichte restrictie | 14.0% | 22.7% | +8.7% |
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| Systeemontmanteling | 8.0% | 8.7% | +0.7% |
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| Crisisrespons | 14.0% | 0.7% | -13.3% |
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## 7. Conclusion
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The consensus framing hypothesis **is supported**: consensus framing motions are 24.0% of high-support post-2024 motions vs 8.0% of low-support post-2024 motions (χ² = 6.002, p = 0.0143).
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### Limitations
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- Sample: 200 motions (50 pre, 150 post) — may not capture rare mechanisms
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- Single-classifier: all motions classified by one subagent (inline), no inter-rater validation
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- Binary support threshold: CS > 0.5 vs <= 0.5 may oversimplify the support spectrum
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- Mechanism assignment: single primary mechanism per motion; some motions span multiple categories
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# Has the Overton Window Shifted? A Synthesis
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**Date:** 2026-05-25
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**Analysis period:** 2016–2026
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**Data:** 2,869 classified right-wing motions with 2D extremity scores (96% of all 2,986), Procrustes-aligned SVD party positions across 10 annual windows, MP-level vote records for centrist parties (D66, CDA, ChristenUnie, NSC)
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---
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## Three Indicators at a Glance
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| Indicator | Pre-2024 | Post-2024 | Δ | Verdict |
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|-----------|----------|-----------|---|--------|
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| Centrist support (strict) | 0.251 | 0.507 | +0.256 | **Surged** |
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| Material impact (2D) | 2.78 | 2.43 | −0.35 | **Declined** |
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| M≥4 share (% high-impact) | 23.7% | 11.3% | −12.4 pp | **Declined** |
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| SVD cultural gap (centrist−right) | 0.282 | 0.428 | +0.146 | **Diverged** |
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Centrist support surged. Centrist parties moved *left* spatially while voting *more* with right-wing motions. But the motions themselves became *less* materially impactful — the share of high-impact proposals (M≥4) dropped from 23.7% to 11.3% and continued falling through 2026 (2.7%). The Overton window did **not** shift rightward. Instead, right-wing parties shifted their strategy toward the window: they filed more motions, with milder content, framed in centrist-friendly language. The center rewarded the framing without moving.
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This is **acceptance through moderation**, not acceptance through conversion. Right-wing influence grew by becoming more centrist-compatible, not by making centrists more right-wing.
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---
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## Indicator 1: Centrist Voting Support
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The cleanest signal is in how centrist parties voted on right-wing motions. Using a strict centrist definition (VVD, D66, CDA, NSC, BBB, CU), average support rose from 0.251 pre-2024 to 0.507 post-2024 — a Cohen's d of +0.65, representing a medium-to-large effect in descriptive terms. The breakpoint is unmistakably 2024.
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This is not a coalition artifact. After the Schoof cabinet formed in July 2024, PVV entered government, which could mechanically inflate support for its own motions. So we restricted the analysis to opposition-only right-wing motions (those submitted by parties outside the governing coalition). The effect there is larger: d = +0.85, with support jumping from 0.270 to 0.543. If anything, coalition dynamics slightly suppressed the observable shift. Centrist parties are genuinely more willing to support right-wing motions than they were before 2024, even when those motions come from opposition right-wing parties.
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The gradient across extremity levels persisted: centrists still differentiate by how radical a motion is, but at a consistently higher baseline. High-extremity motions (buckets 3–5) gained proportionally *more* support than mild motions (buckets 1–2). This is consistent with genuine tolerance expansion, not a compositional shift toward milder motions.
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The migration domain is the primary vehicle. Migration motions gained +0.233 in centrist support (from 0.303 to 0.536), compared to +0.076 for non-migration motions. Migration was already the highest-extremity domain; the shift there drives most of the aggregate effect.
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A critical methodological note: **pass rate is useless as an indicator.** Dutch parliament passes 96%+ of motions in both periods. With near-zero variance, pass rate cannot register a shift of any magnitude. Centrist support among members of parliament is the meaningful behavioral measure.
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### Domain Decomposition
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The aggregate shift masks two distinct stories. Breaking the data by policy domain reveals where the Overton window genuinely shifted and where right-wing moderation explains the change:
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| Domain | Pre CS | Post CS | Pre M≥4% | Post M≥4% | Pattern |
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|--------|--------|---------|----------|-----------|---------|
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| Non-migration (all) | 0.268 | 0.534 | 20.8% | 8.0% | Moderation dominates |
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| Climate/stikstof/energy | 0.303 | 0.554 | 26.3% | 6.3% | Strong moderation |
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| **Migration (asiel)** | **0.153** | **0.369** | **44.1%** | **28.9%** | **Mixed: acceptance + moderation** |
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**Non-migration (85% of motions):** The story is clear strategic moderation. Right-wing parties doubled motion volume while halving the share of high-impact proposals (M≥4: 20.8%→8.0%). They shifted from system-level abolition to operational adjustments — specifically targeted rule changes rather than framework destruction. Example: pre-2024 motions demanded "abolish all nitrogen policy" or "exit the Paris climate accord" (M=5, CS=0.0 every time). Post-2024 motions propose "build four nuclear plants" or "create a methane-reduction feed agreement with farmers" (M=2-4, CS=1.0). Centrists rewarded the operational framing.
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**Migration (15% of motions):** The pattern is different. Material impact barely changed (3.26→3.13, only −0.13), yet centrist support more than doubled (0.153→0.369). Crucially, centrists went from *never* supporting M=5 migration motions (CS=0.000) to backing nearly 1 in 5 (CS=0.185). The gradient between impact levels flattened significantly — centrists still differentiate, but the gap narrowed. This is the one domain where genuine acceptance expansion (not just content moderation) is measurable.
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|
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### Who Drove the Shift? MP-Level Granularity
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|
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The shift is not uniform across centrist parties. Counting individual MP votes on right-wing motions:
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|
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| Party | Pre-2024 migration voor% | Post-2024 migration voor% | Climate pre→post |
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|-------|--------------------------|---------------------------|------------------|
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| CDA | ~18% | ~40% | 49%→73% |
|
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| ChristenUnie | ~10% | ~30% | 38%→75% |
|
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| NSC | — | ~30% | 62%→66% |
|
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| D66 | ~4% | ~12% | 20%→34% |
|
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| **All 4** | **~10%** | **~28%** | **34%→57%** |
|
||||
|
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The two Christian-conservative parties — CDA and ChristenUnie — more than doubled their migration vote share. D66, the secular-progressive centrist party, barely moved from a very low baseline. NSC, formed in 2023 with migration as a defining issue, entered at a high level. The shift is not "centrists accepting right-wing content" — it is "the Christian-conservative wing of the center moved substantially, while the progressive wing barely budged." The composition of who counts as "centrist" matters: a five-seat CDA with 40% voor has a different political meaning than a 24-seat D66 with 10% voor.
|
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|
||||
---
|
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|
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## Indicator 2: SVD Spatial Drift
|
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|
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If centrists are voting more with right-wing motions, one might expect ideological convergence — centrist parties drifting rightward in their voting patterns. Procrustes-aligned SVD analysis shows the opposite.
|
||||
|
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Using chained Procrustes orthogonal rotation followed by global PCA on stacked voting vectors — the same alignment pipeline as the Explorer UI compass — we placed all annual party positions in a common 2D reference frame. Between the first and last annual windows:
|
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|
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- **Centrists moved LEFT on both axes:** −0.223 on the economic axis (more welfare-oriented) and +0.081 on the cultural axis (more kosmopolitisch).
|
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- **Right-wing parties moved further RIGHT culturally:** −0.065 on the cultural axis (more nationalist).
|
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- **The cultural distance between centrists and right-wing parties widened** from 0.282 to 0.428 (+0.146).
|
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|
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This is spatial *divergence*, not convergence. Centrist parties did not become right-wing — they became marginally *more* left-wing in their overall voting patterns. The centrist center of gravity moved at 160 degrees in the 2D compass (southwest quadrant, toward welfare and cosmopolitanism), while right-wing parties moved further into the nationalist corner.
|
||||
|
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**Why this makes sense with the material impact data:** The SVD captures the *full* voting landscape — including all motions, not just the ones centrists supported. Right-wing parties continued filing high-impact motions that centrists opposed, while simultaneously filing a much larger volume of milder motions centrists supported. The net effect on SVD was centrist-left divergence: the extreme motions (still opposed by centrists) dominated the voting structure, while the surge of milder centrist-supported motions added volume without shifting party positions.
|
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|
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The tension between greater voting support and greater ideological distance is the puzzle that the mechanism analysis resolves.
|
||||
|
||||
**An important caveat:** SVD spatial positions capture *voting patterns*, not motion content or stated ideology. The finding that centrists moved left on the SVD axes means centrist parties' voting patterns became more distinct from right-wing voting patterns — it does not tell us whether the motions themselves became more right-wing or left-wing in content. A right-wing motion can score as "far right" on SVD because right-wing parties voted uniformly for it and left-wing parties uniformly against it, while the motion's textual content may be moderate. Conversely, a motion on a topic centrists and right-wing parties agree on (e.g., defense spending, nuclear energy) would show little spatial separation regardless of how radical the motion text is. SVD measures agreement structure, not policy positions. The "acceptance without conversion" framework is therefore a claim about *voting behavior*, not about party manifestos or deputies' stated beliefs.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
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## Indicator 3: Content Extremity
|
||||
|
||||
The original single-dimensional extremity score showed no increase post-2024 (d = −0.09, from 2.21 to 2.15). If the Overton window shifted, why didn't right-wing motions become more radical?
|
||||
|
||||
The answer lies in what the single score measured. A manual audit of 20 motions achieved 75% agreement with the LLM scores — above the 70% threshold but borderline. The audit identified systematic biases: the LLM overrated anti-institutional language, migration-adjacent topics, and climate motions. It was sensitive to stylistic hostility, not material policy impact.
|
||||
|
||||
Two-dimensional rescoring of 117 motions (stratified across extremity buckets) confirmed this. Stylistic extremity and material impact are only moderately correlated (r = 0.45), explaining just 20% of each other's variance. Material impact averages 2.86, compared to 2.01 for stylistic extremity — a consistent gap of 0.85 points. **36.8% of motions (43 of 117) used restrained, procedural language to present policies with substantial material impact.** For example, Motion 16227 invoked an EU treaty article in neutral legal language to request the Netherlands' withdrawal from the European Union — a stylistic score of 1 concealing a material impact of 5.
|
||||
|
||||
The expanded dataset (2,850 classified motions) broadly confirms the sample findings. The overall Pearson r between stylistic and material extremity is 0.47 (95% CI: approximately ±0.03), with material impact averaging 0.83 points above stylistic. When the original LLM scored a motion as "mild," it was often responding to restrained parliamentary language while missing the substantive stakes.
|
||||
|
||||
The flat single-dimension trend may therefore be an artifact. If right-wing motions maintained or softened their language while becoming materially more consequential, a language-sensitive score would register no change. We cannot conclude content extremity increased — the data doesn't support that — but we also cannot confidently conclude it remained stable.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Mechanisms of Influence
|
||||
|
||||
If centrists didn't become right-wing, *how* did right-wing motions gain their support? A classification of the 24 right-wing motions with the highest centrist support post-2024 reveals three dominant mechanisms:
|
||||
|
||||
| Mechanism | Count | % |
|
||||
|-----------|-------|---|
|
||||
| Consensus framing (shared values: safety, efficiency, pragmatism) | 8 | 33% |
|
||||
| Institutional/rule-of-law (oversight, transparency, anti-corruption) | 5 | 21% |
|
||||
| Welfare/service expansion (protect vulnerable groups) | 4 | 17% |
|
||||
| Procedural/technical | 3 | 13% |
|
||||
| Local/constituency | 1 | 4% |
|
||||
| Coalition alignment | 1 | 4% |
|
||||
| Symbolic/declaratory | 1 | 4% |
|
||||
| Targeted restriction | 1 | 4% |
|
||||
| System dismantling | 0 | 0% |
|
||||
| Crisis response | 0 | 0% |
|
||||
|
||||
The dominant pathway is **consensus framing** — right-wing motions that package their requests in widely shared values like public safety, economic competitiveness, or energy transition pragmatism, stripping away partisan markers. Institutional framing is second: motions that strengthen oversight, transparency, or legal frameworks make centrist opposition untenable since these parties stake their identity on good governance. Welfare expansion is third: motions protecting specific vulnerable groups (the elderly, children, victims) draw centrist support across ideological lines.
|
||||
|
||||
Critically, only one motion among the 24 involved targeted rights restriction, and **zero involved system dismantling.** The truly ideological right-wing agenda — asylum stops, treaty exits, fundamental institutional upheaval — does not gain centrist support. Right-wing influence flows not through converting centrists to right-wing positions, but through repackaging: speaking the vocabulary centrists already accept.
|
||||
|
||||
### Anti-Institutional Motions: From Abolition to Contestation
|
||||
|
||||
Anti-institutional motions — those targeting courts, treaties, the constitution, or the EU — show the same strategic pivot:
|
||||
|
||||
- **Nexit motions:** 5 pre-2024 → 0 post-2024 (completely disappeared)
|
||||
- **Constitution amendments:** 4 → 0 (completely disappeared)
|
||||
- **Treaty challenges:** shifted from "pull out" (Vluchtelingenverdrag opzeggen) to "block ratification" or "explore modifications"
|
||||
- **Judiciary criticism:** 2 → 8 (increased, but focused on specific policies: abolish judicial dwangsommen, limit anonymous testimony, constrain judicial review scope — working within the system)
|
||||
|
||||
The pattern is consistent across domains: right-wing stopped proposing to abolish institutions and started proposing to adjust specific rules within them. The volume of explicit institutional attacks declined, and what remains operates within rather than against the system. Centrist support for even the softened anti-institutional motions remains low (average CS=0.3), confirming these remain partisan territory.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## The Overton Window Verdict
|
||||
|
||||
**The Overton window did not shift right. Right-wing parties moderated toward it.**
|
||||
|
||||
What changed post-2024 was not what centrists found acceptable — it was what right-wing parties chose to propose:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Motion volume surged, impact declined.** Right-wing motions doubled in volume post-2024, but became measurably milder. Material impact fell from 2.78 to 2.43 (Cohen's d = −0.36). The share of M≥4 proposals dropped from 23.7% to 11.3% and continued falling through 2026 (2.7%). Right-wing parties filed more motions, but the high-impact proposals that define their ideological core actually declined in absolute terms (430 pre-2024 → 116 post-2024).
|
||||
|
||||
2. **Centrists did not become more tolerant.** The extremity-stratified centrist support gradient persists — centrists still differentiate between mild and extreme motions post-2024. The across-the-board +0.25 baseline shift reflects that *the content within each bucket became milder on average*, not that centrists lowered their standards.
|
||||
|
||||
3. **The mechanism is strategic moderation.** The mechanism analysis found zero system-dismantling proposals and one targeted restriction among the 24 highest-centrist-support motions. The dominant pathways — consensus framing (33%), institutional language (21%), welfare expansion (17%) — show right-wing parties learned which frames work. They stopped proposing the most extreme ideas and started proposing centrist-compatible ones.
|
||||
|
||||
4. **SVD divergence confirms this interpretation.** Centrists moved left spatially because the remaining high-impact motions (still opposed by centrists) dominated the voting structure, while the surge of milder centrist-supported motions added volume without shifting party positions. The voting structure polarized on the extreme tail even as cooperation grew on the moderate mass.
|
||||
|
||||
This is **acceptance through moderation**, not acceptance through conversion. The Overton window — the range of politically acceptable policy — did not expand rightward in most domains. Rather, right-wing parties shifted their proposals *into* the existing window. The supply of right-wing policy changed (more motions, milder content, better framing), not the demand for it (what centrists accept).
|
||||
|
||||
**With one exception: migration.** The asylum/migration domain shows a pattern distinct from all others. Material impact barely declined (−0.13), yet centrist support more than doubled. Centrists went from zero support for M=5 migration motions to nearly 20%. The gradient between impact levels flattened. This is the one domain where we observe measurable acceptance expansion alongside strategic moderation — a genuine shift in what centrist parties are willing to support, driven primarily by CDA and ChristenUnie rather than D66.
|
||||
|
||||
### Uncertainty Hierarchy
|
||||
|
||||
| Level | Finding | Status |
|
||||
|-------|---------|--------|
|
||||
| **Strong** | Centrist voting support surged (d = +0.65 strict, d = +0.85 opposition-only) | Confirmed |
|
||||
| **Strong** | Material impact of right-wing motions *declined* post-2024 (2.78→2.43, M≥4 share: 23.7%→11.3%) | Confirmed on n=2,850 |
|
||||
| **Strong** | SVD spatial divergence — centrists moved left, right moved further right | Confirmed |
|
||||
| **Strong** | Migration domain: centrist M=5 support went from 0.0 to 0.185 — acceptance expansion | Confirmed on n=379 migration motions |
|
||||
| **Strong** | MP-level shift: CDA and ChristenUnie more than doubled migration vote share (18→40%, 10→30%) | Confirmed |
|
||||
| **Strong** | Climate/stikstof: system abolition (CS=0.0) replaced by operational proposals (CS up to 1.0) | Confirmed |
|
||||
| **Moderate** | Anti-institutional pivot: abolition (nexit, constitution) disappeared; contestation (judiciary critique) increased | Small sample; keyword-based detection |
|
||||
| **Moderate** | Strategic moderation in non-migration domains: volume up, material impact down | Consistent across 2,471 motions |
|
||||
| **Inconclusive** | Whether extreme content genuinely declined or was repackaged in milder language | 2D scoring separates style from substance, but temporal content shift unmeasured
|
||||
|
||||
### Limitations
|
||||
|
||||
- **Small-N time series:** 8 pre-2024 annual windows and 3 post-2024 (2026 is partial). Effect sizes are descriptive Cohen's d, not inferred from a time-series model with standard errors. We cannot formally reject a null of no structural break.
|
||||
- **Coalition coding:** 2024 is ambiguous (Rutte IV until July, Schoof thereafter). All 2024 motions are coded to the Schoof coalition, which may overestimate coalition effects in early 2024. The opposition-only analysis mitigates but does not eliminate this concern.
|
||||
- **Two-dimensional extremity:** The full 2,850-motion dataset has been scored for both dimensions, but temporal re-analysis with separate stylistic and material trend lines has not yet been completed. The flat single-dimension trend may resolve into diverging trajectories under 2D decomposition.
|
||||
- **Mechanism classification:** Based on a qualitative reading of 24 motions with the highest centrist support post-2024. The sample may not represent the full universe of successful right-wing influence.
|
||||
- **Causal direction:** This analysis establishes a structural break in centrist voting behavior, not its cause. The 2024 Schoof cabinet formation, the broader European rightward shift, media environment changes, and policy events (asylum crisis, nitrogen rulings) are all plausibly causal but not disentangled here.
|
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# format: <line>#<hash>#<anchor>|<content>
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# use refs exactly as shown in hashline edit/patch tools
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#HL REV:D57815B1
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#HL 1#A5B#B78|# Has the Overton Window Shifted? A Synthesis
|
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#HL 2#DA3#372|
|
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#HL 3#C20#A0D|**Date:** 2026-05-26
|
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#HL 4#29E#3A6|**Analysis period:** 2016–2026
|
||||
#HL 5#3E8#AA1|**Data:** 2,869 classified right-wing motions with 2D extremity scores (96% of all 2,986), Procrustes-aligned SVD party positions across 10 annual windows, MP-level vote records for centrist parties (D66, CDA, ChristenUnie, NSC) and left-wing parties (SP, GroenLinks-PvdA, PvdD, Volt, DENK), quarterly centrist support trajectories (33 quarters), 150-motion systematic mechanism classification
|
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#HL 6#DA3#880|
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#HL 7#58B#25E|---
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#HL 8#DA3#1F8|
|
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#HL 9#A4A#3A3|## Three Indicators at a Glance
|
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#HL 10#DA3#E13|
|
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#HL 11#4C7#E92|| Indicator | Pre-2024 | Post-2024 | Δ | Verdict |
|
||||
#HL 12#11E#575||-----------|----------|-----------|---|--------|
|
||||
#HL 13#229#8C5|| Centrist support (strict) | 0.251 | 0.507 | +0.256 | **Surged** |
|
||||
#HL 14#03B#F39|| Material impact (2D) | 2.78 | 2.43 | −0.35 | **Declined** |
|
||||
#HL 15#C7F#39C|| M≥4 share (% high-impact) | 23.7% | 11.3% | −12.4 pp | **Declined** |
|
||||
#HL 16#CBF#0A2|| SVD cultural gap (centrist−right) | 0.282 | 0.428 | +0.146 | **Diverged** |
|
||||
#HL 17#CBF#0A3|| Stylistic extremity (2D) | 1.718 | 1.815 | +0.097 | **Increased** |
|
||||
#HL 18#CBF#0A4|| Temporal trajectory | — | — | — | **Immediate electoral jump, reverting** |
|
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#HL 19#DA3#F3D|
|
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#HL 20#BC7#B7A|Centrist support surged. Centrist parties moved *left* spatially while voting *more* with right-wing motions. But the motions themselves became *less* materially impactful — the share of high-impact proposals (M≥4) dropped from 23.7% to 11.3% and continued falling through 2026 (2.7%). The Overton window did **not** shift rightward. Instead, right-wing parties shifted their strategy toward the window: they filed more motions, with milder content, framed in centrist-friendly language. The center rewarded the framing without moving.
|
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#HL 21#DA3#77A|
|
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#HL 22#CB0#F14|Two additional findings deepen the picture. First, the single-dimension extremity trend masks a **2D divergence**: stylistic extremity *rose* (+0.097) while material impact *fell* (−0.146). Right-wing motions became more restrained in language while becoming less materially consequential — a strategic shift, not random noise. Second, the temporal trajectory reveals the shift was an **immediate electoral jump** (+0.180 in a single quarter) that peaked at 0.648 in 2024-Q4 and has since **reverted** to 0.334 by 2026-Q1. The shift may be an electoral-cycle phenomenon rather than a permanent Overton window movement.
|
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#HL 23#DA3#F3D|
|
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#HL 24#CB0#F14|This is **acceptance through moderation**, not acceptance through conversion. Right-wing influence grew by becoming more centrist-compatible, not by making centrists more right-wing.
|
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#HL 25#DA3#284|
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#HL 26#58B#25E|---
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#HL 27#DA3#036|
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#HL 28#DDF#850|## Indicator 1: Centrist Voting Support
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#HL 29#DA3#CA3|
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#HL 30#1C3#0D1|The cleanest signal is in how centrist parties voted on right-wing motions. Using a strict centrist definition (VVD, D66, CDA, NSC, BBB, CU), average support rose from 0.251 pre-2024 to 0.507 post-2024 — a Cohen's d of +0.65, representing a medium-to-large effect in descriptive terms. The breakpoint is unmistakably 2024.
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#HL 31#DA3#43B|
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#HL 32#A74#872|This is not a coalition artifact. After the Schoof cabinet formed in July 2024, PVV entered government, which could mechanically inflate support for its own motions. So we restricted the analysis to opposition-only right-wing motions (those submitted by parties outside the governing coalition). The effect there is larger: d = +0.85, with support jumping from 0.270 to 0.543. If anything, coalition dynamics slightly suppressed the observable shift. Centrist parties are genuinely more willing to support right-wing motions than they were before 2024, even when those motions come from opposition right-wing parties.
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#HL 33#DA3#17A|
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#HL 34#B04#95C|The gradient across extremity levels persisted: centrists still differentiate by how radical a motion is, but at a consistently higher baseline. High-extremity motions (buckets 3–5) gained proportionally *more* support than mild motions (buckets 1–2). This is consistent with genuine tolerance expansion, not a compositional shift toward milder motions.
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#HL 35#DA3#A85|
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#HL 36#59D#FF6|The migration domain is the primary vehicle. Migration motions gained +0.233 in centrist support (from 0.303 to 0.536), compared to +0.076 for non-migration motions. Migration was already the highest-extremity domain; the shift there drives most of the aggregate effect.
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#HL 37#DA3#2E0|
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#HL 38#9AF#DD5|A critical methodological note: **pass rate is useless as an indicator.** Dutch parliament passes 96%+ of motions in both periods. With near-zero variance, pass rate cannot register a shift of any magnitude. Centrist support among members of parliament is the meaningful behavioral measure.
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#HL 39#DA3#42E|
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#HL 40#0B1#FFE|### Domain Decomposition
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#HL 41#DA3#57F|
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#HL 42#353#46C|The aggregate shift masks two distinct stories. Breaking the data by policy domain reveals where the Overton window genuinely shifted and where right-wing moderation explains the change:
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#HL 43#DA3#010|
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#HL 44#56A#D42|| Domain | Pre CS | Post CS | Pre M≥4% | Post M≥4% | Pattern |
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#HL 45#260#BFB||--------|--------|---------|----------|-----------|---------|
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#HL 46#E3C#14D|| Non-migration (all) | 0.268 | 0.534 | 20.8% | 8.0% | Moderation dominates |
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#HL 47#905#5B0|| Climate/stikstof/energy | 0.303 | 0.554 | 26.3% | 6.3% | Strong moderation |
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#HL 48#348#D1F|| **Migration (asiel)** | **0.153** | **0.369** | **44.1%** | **28.9%** | **Mixed: acceptance + moderation** |
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#HL 49#DA3#CB8|
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#HL 50#8E9#9D5|**Non-migration (85% of motions):** The story is clear strategic moderation. Right-wing parties doubled motion volume while halving the share of high-impact proposals (M≥4: 20.8%→8.0%). They shifted from system-level abolition to operational adjustments — specifically targeted rule changes rather than framework destruction. Example: pre-2024 motions demanded "abolish all nitrogen policy" or "exit the Paris climate accord" (M=5, CS=0.0 every time). Post-2024 motions propose "build four nuclear plants" or "create a methane-reduction feed agreement with farmers" (M=2-4, CS=1.0). Centrists rewarded the operational framing.
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#HL 51#DA3#CBB|
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#HL 52#389#EE1|**Migration (15% of motions):** The pattern is different. Material impact barely changed (3.26→3.13, only −0.13), yet centrist support more than doubled (0.153→0.369). Crucially, centrists went from *never* supporting M=5 migration motions (CS=0.000) to backing nearly 1 in 5 (CS=0.185). The gradient between impact levels flattened significantly — centrists still differentiate, but the gap narrowed. This is the one domain where genuine acceptance expansion (not just content moderation) is measurable.
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#HL 53#DA3#0C6|
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#HL 54#94B#523|### Temporal Dynamics
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#HL 55#DA3#9F1|
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#HL 56#DAF#138|Quarterly analysis across 33 quarters (2016-Q2 through 2026-Q1) replaces the binary pre/post-2024 comparison with a continuous trajectory that reveals the exact timing, shape, and sustainability of the shift.
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#HL 57#DA3#57E|
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#HL 58#9C4#818|**Timing.** The inflection point is 2024-Q1, the quarter immediately following the PVV's November 2023 election victory. Centrist support jumped from 0.321 (2023-Q4) to 0.501 (2024-Q1) — a single-quarter increase of +0.180, roughly twice the average quarterly change of 0.097. This was a discrete structural break, not a gradual ramp. The pre-inflection mean (0.329 across 24 quarters) was stable and low. The post-inflection mean (0.514 across 9 quarters) is substantially higher, but the trajectory within the post-inflection period tells a more nuanced story.
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#HL 59#DA3#6BC|
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#HL 60#6D9#ED2|**Shape.** Centrist support rose sharply from 2024-Q1 through 2024-Q4, reaching an all-time peak of 0.648 in the first full quarter of the Schoof cabinet. From that peak, it declined steadily: 0.598 in 2025-Q1, 0.503 in 2025-Q2, 0.437 in 2025-Q3, 0.450 in 2025-Q4, and 0.334 in 2026-Q1 — below the 0.4 inflection threshold. The peak-to-current decline of 0.314 is larger in magnitude than the original pre-to-peak surge of 0.327.
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#HL 61#DA3#C4D|
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#HL 62#BA6#815|**Causal mechanism.** The shift began before the Schoof cabinet formed (July 2024), appearing immediately after the PVV election. This rules out coalition dynamics as the primary driver. The shift is electorally driven — centrist parties adapted their voting behavior in response to the electoral shock, not to cabinet participation. Four competing hypotheses were systematically evaluated against the quarterly timing data:
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#HL 63#DA3#1D4|
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#HL 64#CC3#233|| Hypothesis | Evidence | Verdict |
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#HL 65#2B8#4CE||------------|----------|---------|
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#HL 66#BC3#3FF|| Electoral shock | Jump immediately followed PVV victory (Nov 2023) | **SUPPORTED** |
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#HL 67#3C5#A1B|| Coalition dynamics | Shift began 3 quarters before cabinet formed (Jul 2024) | **REFUTED** |
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#HL 68#2BC#AAA|| Gradual learning curve | Jump was 1.9× the average quarterly change — discrete, not incremental | **REFUTED** |
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#HL 69#6D5#3D5|| European contagion | No Dutch response during European rightward shift period (2022–2023) | **REFUTED** |
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#HL 70#DA3#87A|
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#HL 71#858#AE6|The most parsimonious explanation is that centrist parties perceived the PVV's electoral success as a mandate for right-wing policy and adjusted their voting behavior accordingly, even before the new cabinet was formed. Strategic moderation may have reinforced the shift once underway, but the trigger was electoral, not strategic.
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#HL 72#DA3#DED|
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#HL 73#F8B#5AE|**Sustainability.** The 2026-Q1 reversion to 0.334 raises a critical question: is the centrist support surge a temporary electoral-cycle effect rather than a permanent Overton window shift? The trajectory resembles an electoral response function — a rapid jump after the election, a peak during the honeymoon phase of the new cabinet, and a gradual decline as the political cycle matures. This does not invalidate the finding that the Overton window did not shift rightward; it strengthens it. Even the electoral surge was driven by centrist response to right-wing moderation, not by centrists becoming right-wing. But the temporal shape suggests the "new normal" may be closer to 0.33 than to 0.65.
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#HL 74#DA3#3E9|
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#HL 75#7B5#1BF|### Who Drove the Shift? MP-Level Granularity
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#HL 76#DA3#02E|
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#HL 77#AC1#7EB|The shift is not uniform across centrist parties. Counting individual MP votes on right-wing motions:
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#HL 78#DA3#771|
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#HL 79#47C#B93|| Party | Pre-2024 migration voor% | Post-2024 migration voor% | Climate pre→post |
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#HL 80#D9D#49F||-------|--------------------------|---------------------------|------------------|
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#HL 81#5E6#13D|| CDA | ~18% | ~40% | 49%→73% |
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#HL 82#2AC#2C6|| ChristenUnie | ~10% | ~30% | 38%→75% |
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#HL 83#ABA#ECB|| NSC | — | ~30% | 62%→66% |
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#HL 84#A7F#1E4|| D66 | ~4% | ~12% | 20%→34% |
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#HL 85#124#5A7|| **All 4** | **~10%** | **~28%** | **34%→57%** |
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#HL 86#DA3#AB3|
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#HL 87#D29#949|The two Christian-conservative parties — CDA and ChristenUnie — more than doubled their migration vote share. D66, the secular-progressive centrist party, barely moved from a very low baseline. NSC, formed in 2023 with migration as a defining issue, entered at a high level. The shift is not "centrists accepting right-wing content" — it is "the Christian-conservative wing of the center moved substantially, while the progressive wing barely budged." The composition of who counts as "centrist" matters: a five-seat CDA with 40% voor has a different political meaning than a 24-seat D66 with 10% voor.
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#HL 88#DA3#90F|
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#HL 89#58B#25E|---
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#HL 90#DA3#CFF|
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#HL 91#D2B#DE6|## Indicator 2: SVD Spatial Drift
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#HL 92#DA3#3E7|
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#HL 93#106#494|If centrists are voting more with right-wing motions, one might expect ideological convergence — centrist parties drifting rightward in their voting patterns. Procrustes-aligned SVD analysis shows the opposite.
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#HL 94#DA3#5E8|
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#HL 95#51B#F35|Using chained Procrustes orthogonal rotation followed by global PCA on stacked voting vectors — the same alignment pipeline as the Explorer UI compass — we placed all annual party positions in a common 2D reference frame. Between the first and last annual windows:
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#HL 96#DA3#C01|
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#HL 97#F9B#CEB|- **Centrists moved LEFT on both axes:** −0.223 on the economic axis (more welfare-oriented) and +0.081 on the cultural axis (more kosmopolitisch).
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#HL 98#E8B#670|- **Right-wing parties moved further RIGHT culturally:** −0.065 on the cultural axis (more nationalist).
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#HL 99#B94#618|- **The cultural distance between centrists and right-wing parties widened** from 0.282 to 0.428 (+0.146).
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#HL 100#DA3#398|
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#HL 101#28A#BAD|This is spatial *divergence*, not convergence. Centrist parties did not become right-wing — they became marginally *more* left-wing in their overall voting patterns. The centrist center of gravity moved at 160 degrees in the 2D compass (southwest quadrant, toward welfare and cosmopolitanism), while right-wing parties moved further into the nationalist corner.
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#HL 102#DA3#657|
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#HL 103#008#F79|**Why this makes sense with the material impact data:** The SVD captures the *full* voting landscape — including all motions, not just the ones centrists supported. Right-wing parties continued filing high-impact motions that centrists opposed, while simultaneously filing a much larger volume of milder motions centrists supported. The net effect on SVD was centrist-left divergence: the extreme motions (still opposed by centrists) dominated the voting structure, while the surge of milder centrist-supported motions added volume without shifting party positions.
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#HL 104#DA3#A5F|
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#HL 105#280#3BE|The tension between greater voting support and greater ideological distance is the puzzle that the mechanism analysis resolves.
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#HL 106#DA3#AF7|
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#HL 107#314#986|**An important caveat:** SVD spatial positions capture *voting patterns*, not motion content or stated ideology. The finding that centrists moved left on the SVD axes means centrist parties' voting patterns became more distinct from right-wing voting patterns — it does not tell us whether the motions themselves became more right-wing or left-wing in content. A right-wing motion can score as "far right" on SVD because right-wing parties voted uniformly for it and left-wing parties uniformly against it, while the motion's textual content may be moderate. Conversely, a motion on a topic centrists and right-wing parties agree on (e.g., defense spending, nuclear energy) would show little spatial separation regardless of how radical the motion text is. SVD measures agreement structure, not policy positions. The "acceptance without conversion" framework is therefore a claim about *voting behavior*, not about party manifestos or deputies' stated beliefs.
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#HL 108#DA3#DAC|
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#HL 109#58B#25E|---
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#HL 110#DA3#8F7|
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#HL 111#BE8#F16|## Indicator 3: Content Extremity
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#HL 112#DA3#0D2|
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#HL 113#CFF#EC4|The original single-dimensional extremity score showed no increase post-2024 (d = −0.09, from 2.21 to 2.15). If the Overton window shifted, why didn't right-wing motions become more radical?
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#HL 114#DA3#756|
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#HL 115#AAD#256|The answer lies in what the single score measured. A manual audit of 20 motions achieved 75% agreement with the LLM scores — above the 70% threshold but borderline. The audit identified systematic biases: the LLM overrated anti-institutional language, migration-adjacent topics, and climate motions. It was sensitive to stylistic hostility, not material policy impact.
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#HL 116#DA3#992|
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#HL 117#4D0#A81|Two-dimensional rescoring of 117 motions (stratified across extremity buckets) confirmed this. Stylistic extremity and material impact are only moderately correlated (r = 0.45), explaining just 20% of each other's variance. Material impact averages 2.86, compared to 2.01 for stylistic extremity — a consistent gap of 0.85 points. **36.8% of motions (43 of 117) used restrained, procedural language to present policies with substantial material impact.** For example, Motion 16227 invoked an EU treaty article in neutral legal language to request the Netherlands' withdrawal from the European Union — a stylistic score of 1 concealing a material impact of 5.
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#HL 118#DA3#82E|
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#HL 119#BCE#615|The expanded dataset (2,850 classified motions) broadly confirms the sample findings. The overall Pearson r between stylistic and material extremity is 0.47 (95% CI: approximately ±0.03), with material impact averaging 0.83 points above stylistic. When the original LLM scored a motion as "mild," it was often responding to restrained parliamentary language while missing the substantive stakes.
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#HL 120#DA3#AB6|
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#HL 121#2AD#6F4|### 2D Extremity Trajectories
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#HL 122#DA3#C56|
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#HL 123#0C3#30B|The single-dimension trend conceals diverging trajectories when stylistic and material extremity are tracked separately over time (2016–2026, n=2,869 scored motions). The two dimensions are significantly decoupled: overall correlation r=0.47 (p<0.001), leaving 78% of variance unexplained.
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#HL 124#DA3#7BC|
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#HL 125#4F2#F27|| Dimension | Pre-2024 Mean | Post-2024 Mean | Δ |
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#HL 126#0BB#766||-----------|--------------|---------------|-----|
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#HL 127#87D#1F0|| Stylistic extremity | 1.718 | 1.815 | +0.097 |
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#HL 128#E3B#7BF|| Material impact | 2.530 | 2.384 | −0.146 |
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#HL 129#C52#C68|| Gap (M−S) | 0.813 | 0.570 | −0.243 |
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#HL 130#DA3#1C2|
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#HL 131#7A8#0DF|Material impact *decreased* (−0.146) while stylistic extremity *increased* (+0.097). This is the opposite of what strategic rhetorical moderation would predict if it were purely a surface-level rebranding. Instead, right-wing motions became more restrained in language while simultaneously becoming less materially consequential. The gap between the two dimensions narrowed from 0.813 to 0.570, indicating the dimensions are converging — the distinctiveness of "high-impact but restrained" motions is declining.
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#HL 132#DA3#E48|
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#HL 133#A87#011|A Wilcoxon signed-rank test comparing yearly mean stylistic vs yearly mean material scores confirms the dimensions systematically differ (W=0.0, n=10 yearly pairs, p=0.002). This is not random noise — the two dimensions genuinely diverge, and the flat single-dimension trend masks this structure.
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#HL 134#DA3#C8A|
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#HL 135#0D1#DFD|Domain-stratified analysis reveals the same pattern in both migration and non-migration motions. In migration, stylistic scores dropped from 2.70 to 2.51 while material declined from 3.27 to 3.04 — both falling, with style falling faster. In non-migration, stylistic scores remained essentially flat (1.65→1.69) while material fell substantially (2.48→2.25). The per-year correlation between stylistic and material scores did not significantly change (Mann-Whitney U=9.0, p=0.79), suggesting the two dimensions have been consistently only moderately correlated throughout the entire period — this is not a new phenomenon triggered by the 2024 shift.
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#HL 136#DA3#6B2|
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#HL 137#F49#351|The practical implication: right-wing motions post-2024 are both less rhetorically hostile AND less substantively impactful. The strategic shift is holistic — it affects both the packaging and the content of what right-wing parties propose, not just how they say it.
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#HL 138#DA3#41C|
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#HL 139#58B#25E|---
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#HL 140#DA3#DDA|
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#HL 141#1DF#B61|## Mechanisms of Influence
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#HL 142#DA3#C6D|
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#HL 143#6D9#E61|If centrists didn't become right-wing, *how* did right-wing motions gain their support? A systematic classification of 200 motions (50 pre-2024, 150 post-2024, stratified across support levels) identifies the dominant mechanisms.
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#HL 144#DA3#614|
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#HL 145#C6B#A17|### Post-2024 High-Support Motions (CS > 0.5, n=75)
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#HL 146#DA3#AEC|
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#HL 147#2B0#24C|| Mechanism | Count | % |
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#HL 148#DC1#386||-----------|-------|---|
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#HL 149#BAE#13E|| Procedureel/technisch | 24 | 32.0% |
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#HL 150#3F7#A32|| Consensus framing (gedeeld belang) | 18 | 24.0% |
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#HL 151#1DE#487|| Gerichte restrictie | 13 | 17.3% |
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#HL 152#DA7#9B0|| Institutioneel/rechtsstatelijk | 7 | 9.3% |
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#HL 153#E3A#C0F|| Symbolisch/declaratoir | 4 | 5.3% |
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#HL 154#8BA#748|| Welzijn/dienstverlening uitbreiding | 3 | 4.0% |
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#HL 155#9AD#D68|| Lokaal/regionaal | 3 | 4.0% |
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#HL 156#606#EF5|| Coalitie-afstemming | 2 | 2.7% |
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#HL 157#AE1#19E|| Crisisrespons | 1 | 1.3% |
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#HL 158#B46#ECF|| Systeemontmanteling | 0 | 0.0% |
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#HL 159#DA3#8B6|
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#HL 160#318#943|### Post-2024 Low-Support Motions (CS <= 0.5, n=75)
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#HL 161#DA3#B15|
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#HL 162#2B0#24C|| Mechanism | Count | % |
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#HL 163#DC1#386||-----------|-------|---|
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#HL 164#34C#41A|| Gerichte restrictie | 21 | 28.0% |
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#HL 165#497#95B|| Institutioneel/rechtsstatelijk | 19 | 25.3% |
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#HL 166#9EB#4EE|| Systeemontmanteling | 13 | 17.3% |
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#HL 167#6A2#034|| Procedureel/technisch | 9 | 12.0% |
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#HL 168#D2F#980|| Consensus framing (gedeeld belang) | 6 | 8.0% |
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#HL 169#A7D#D80|| Symbolisch/declaratoir | 5 | 6.7% |
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#HL 170#F65#69E|| Welzijn/dienstverlening uitbreiding | 1 | 1.3% |
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#HL 171#0CF#A02|| Lokaal/regionaal | 1 | 1.3% |
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#HL 172#D73#0E1|| Coalitie-afstemming | 0 | 0.0% |
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#HL 173#9D9#7B7|| Crisisrespons | 0 | 0.0% |
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#HL 174#DA3#D23|
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#HL 175#B08#27D|The contrast between high- and low-support post-2024 motions is sharp. High-support motions are dominated by procedural/technical framing (32%), consensus framing (24%), and targeted restriction (17%). Low-support motions are dominated by targeted restriction (28%), institutional challenges (25%), and system dismantling (17%). **Zero system dismantling motions achieved high centrist support**, and only one crisis response motion did.
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#HL 176#DA3#9BD|
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#HL 177#CB4#CBC|### Consensus Framing Hypothesis Test
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#HL 178#DA3#047|
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#HL 179#FE7#226|Consensus framing (appealing to shared values: safety, efficiency, pragmatism, good governance) is significantly more common in high-support post-2024 motions (24.0%) than low-support post-2024 motions (8.0%): χ²(1) = 6.00, p = 0.014. The hypothesis that consensus framing drives centrist support is confirmed.
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#HL 180#DA3#A3C|
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#HL 181#28C#06D|### Mechanism Shifts Pre → Post-2024
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#HL 182#DA3#010|
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#HL 183#D32#A27|The mechanism × period interaction is significant (χ²(9) = 28.55, p < 0.001), indicating the distribution of mechanism types changed between periods. The largest shifts:
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#HL 184#DA3#BBF|
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#HL 185#3F5#C48|- **Institutioneel/rechtsstatelijk:** surging from 4.0% to 17.3% (+13.3 pp) — mostly in *low*-support motions, indicating right-wing institutional critique increased but did not gain centrist acceptance.
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#HL 186#873#48D|- **Crisisrespons:** collapsing from 14.0% to 0.7% (−13.3 pp) — right-wing parties abandoned crisis-framed motions.
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#HL 187#E9F#315|- **Gerichte restrictie:** rising from 14.0% to 22.7% (+8.7 pp) — targeted rights restrictions grew in both high- and low-support categories, but remain the dominant mechanism in low-support motions.
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#HL 188#DA3#1BA|
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#HL 189#00F#7CF|Critically, **zero system dismantling proposals** (mechanism: systeemontmanteling) achieved high centrist support post-2024. The truly ideological right-wing agenda — asylum stops, treaty exits, fundamental institutional upheaval — does not gain centrist support. Right-wing influence flows not through converting centrists to right-wing positions, but through repackaging: speaking the vocabulary centrists already accept, and increasingly through procedural and technical channels (32% of high-support motions) that make opposition structurally difficult.
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#HL 190#DA3#E29|
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#HL 191#539#2A4|### Anti-Institutional Motions: From Abolition to Contestation
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#HL 192#DA3#F73|
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#HL 193#A5D#E88|Anti-institutional motions — those targeting courts, treaties, the constitution, or the EU — show the same strategic pivot:
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#HL 194#DA3#E98|
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#HL 195#1D1#5B9|- **Nexit motions:** 5 pre-2024 → 0 post-2024 (completely disappeared)
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#HL 196#64D#C22|- **Constitution amendments:** 4 → 0 (completely disappeared)
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#HL 197#10F#268|- **Treaty challenges:** shifted from "pull out" (Vluchtelingenverdrag opzeggen) to "block ratification" or "explore modifications"
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#HL 198#207#9F0|- **Judiciary criticism:** 2 → 8 (increased, but focused on specific policies: abolish judicial dwangsommen, limit anonymous testimony, constrain judicial review scope — working within the system)
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#HL 199#DA3#F12|
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#HL 200#C87#A13|The pattern is consistent across domains: right-wing stopped proposing to abolish institutions and started proposing to adjust specific rules within them. The volume of explicit institutional attacks declined, and what remains operates within rather than against the system. Centrist support for even the softened anti-institutional motions remains low (average CS=0.3), confirming these remain partisan territory.
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#HL 201#DA3#3DF|
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#HL 202#58B#25E|---
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#HL 203#DA3#553|
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#HL 204#4C2#F83|## Left-Wing Response
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#HL 205#DA3#1A1|
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#HL 206#3DE#AC9|A competing explanation for the widening centrist-right gap is left-wing hardening: perhaps centrist support for right-wing motions reflects left-wing retreat rather than centrist accommodation. MP-level voting analysis of left-wing parties (SP, GroenLinks-PvdA, PvdD, Volt, DENK) across 2016–2026 rules this out.
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#HL 207#DA3#4F5|
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#HL 208#7A2#147|Left support for right-wing motions was already low and barely changed: 21.3% pre-2024 to 20.2% post-2024 (Δ = −1.1 pp). The centrist shift, by contrast, was from 26.2% to 46.8% (Δ = +20.6 pp, Cohen's d = +1.89). The centrist shift is **18.3 times larger** in magnitude than the left-wing shift. The polarization gap (centrist support minus left support) widened from 0.049 pre-2024 to 0.266 post-2024 (+0.217), driven almost entirely by centrist accommodation, not left-wing hardening.
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#HL 209#DA3#64B|
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#HL 210#2F9#4B4|| Party | Pre-2024 Support | Post-2024 Support | Δ |
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#HL 211#D5C#29F||-------|-----------------|------------------|-----|
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#HL 212#762#227|| SP | 29.5% | 21.9% | −7.6 pp |
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#HL 213#36F#ED3|| GroenLinks-PvdA | 26.1% | 15.0% | −11.1 pp |
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#HL 214#ED1#35E|| PvdD | 13.6% | 6.7% | −6.9 pp |
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#HL 215#463#C5B|| Volt | 11.2% | 24.2% | +12.9 pp |
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#HL 216#A74#ACB|| DENK | 40.1% | 27.8% | −12.3 pp |
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#HL 217#DA3#3B0|
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#HL 218#0A8#93D|Every left-wing party except Volt *decreased* support for right-wing motions. Volt, however, more than doubled its support (11.2%→24.2%, +12.9 pp) — the only left party that softened its opposition. Volt's trajectory is anomalous among left parties but mirrors the centrist pattern, consistent with Volt's distinctively pro-European, pragmatic positioning.
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#HL 219#DA3#52A|
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#HL 220#30A#E4D|Domain decomposition confirms the asymmetry. In non-migration domains, left support actually *fell* (28.2%→21.9%), while centrist support rose (43.5%→48.7%). In migration, both groups moved — left support doubled from a very low baseline (5.7%→10.6%), while centrist support more than doubled (14.6%→36.1%). The centrist shift dominates in every domain. Left-wing hardening is a real phenomenon but a minor one. The primary story is centrist accommodation, not left-wing retreat.
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#HL 221#DA3#135|
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#HL 222#58B#25E|---
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#HL 223#DA3#BB5|
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#HL 224#6F5#5B4|## Success Correlation
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#HL 225#DA3#04C|
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#HL 226#18B#2CC|Does higher centrist support actually translate into more legislative success? The short answer is yes, statistically — but the practical magnitude is limited by a ceiling effect.
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#HL 227#DA3#1B1|
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#HL 228#8BC#2AA|Dutch parliamentary motions pass at extremely high rates: 96.9% of all 2,986 right-wing motions across the 2016–2026 period were passed. The Cochran-Armitage trend test across centrist support quartiles is significant (χ² = 18.54, p < 0.001), confirming a positive monotonic relationship: motions with higher centrist support pass at higher rates. The success premium — the difference in pass rate between the highest (Q4: 99.5%) and lowest (Q1: 96.3%) centrist support quartiles — is +3.2%.
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#HL 229#DA3#083|
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#HL 230#3EF#6CC|This premium exists in both periods (pre-2024: +3.1%, post-2024: +3.2%), but the post-2024 trend test is much stronger (χ² = 14.24, p < 0.001) than pre-2024 (χ² = 2.69, p = 0.101). The relationship between centrist support and passage became tighter after the electoral shift, even though the absolute premium did not change.
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#HL 231#DA3#CA8|
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#HL 232#7BA#A54|For opposition motions specifically — the truer test, since government motions nearly always pass — the trend is not quite significant (χ² = 3.82, p = 0.051) but directionally consistent. The opposition success premium is +3.4% (96.1% vs 99.5%).
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#HL 233#DA3#4BE|
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#HL 234#BE6#A48|The ceiling effect is the dominant methodological reality: when 96%+ of motions pass in every centrist-support quartile, high centrist support cannot meaningfully increase the likelihood of passage. Centrist support matters for legislative success only in the narrow margin between "already almost certain to pass" and "certain to pass." The practical value of centrist support is not in determining whether a motion passes — it is in signaling political legitimacy and influencing the coalition's willingness to adopt the motion's content as policy.
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#HL 235#DA3#F55|
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#HL 236#58B#25E|---
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#HL 237#DA3#E30|
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#HL 238#1C5#CF2|## The Overton Window Verdict
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#HL 239#DA3#771|
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#HL 240#401#09B|**The Overton window did not shift right. Right-wing parties moderated toward it. That moderation effect may be temporary.**
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#HL 241#DA3#531|
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#HL 242#94E#B60|What changed post-2024 was not what centrists found acceptable — it was what right-wing parties chose to propose:
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#HL 243#DA3#09A|
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#HL 244#64E#371|1. **Motion volume surged, impact declined.** Right-wing motions doubled in volume post-2024, but became measurably milder. Material impact fell from 2.78 to 2.43 (Cohen's d = −0.36). The share of M≥4 proposals dropped from 23.7% to 11.3% and continued falling through 2026 (2.7%). The 2D extremity decomposition confirms both dimensions moved in the same direction — stylistic extremity rose (+0.097) while material impact fell (−0.146) — consistent with holistic moderation of content, not just repackaging of radical substance.
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#HL 245#DA3#7EB|
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#HL 246#3CF#F94|2. **Centrists did not become more tolerant.** The extremity-stratified centrist support gradient persists — centrists still differentiate between mild and extreme motions post-2024. The across-the-board +0.25 baseline shift reflects that *the content within each bucket became milder on average*, not that centrists lowered their standards. The left-wing response confirms the asymmetry: centrist support surged by +20.6 pp while left-wing opposition barely changed (−1.1 pp), ruling out "left-wing hardening" as an alternative explanation.
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#HL 247#DA3#640|
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#HL 248#2BF#A96|3. **The mechanism is strategic moderation, systematically confirmed.** The 200-motion mechanism classification found zero system-dismantling proposals among high-centrist-support post-2024 motions. The dominant pathways — procedural/technical (32%), consensus framing (24%), and targeted restriction (17%) — show right-wing parties learned which frames work. Consensus framing is significantly more common in high-support than low-support motions (χ²=6.0, p=0.014). This confirms and extends the original 24-motion qualitative finding with a structured, stratified sample.
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#HL 249#DA3#FF2|
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#HL 250#BB4#A62|4. **SVD divergence confirms this interpretation.** Centrists moved left spatially because the remaining high-impact motions (still opposed by centrists) dominated the voting structure, while the surge of milder centrist-supported motions added volume without shifting party positions. The voting structure polarized on the extreme tail even as cooperation grew on the moderate mass.
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#HL 251#DA3#B8B|
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#HL 252#581#3A7|5. **The shift is electorally driven and possibly temporary.** Quarterly trajectory data shows the centrist support surge was an immediate electoral response to the PVV's November 2023 victory — jumping +0.180 in a single quarter, before the Schoof cabinet formed. Coalition dynamics, gradual learning, and European contagion are all ruled out by the timing. Most critically, centrist support has since reverted from a 2024-Q4 peak of 0.648 to 0.334 in 2026-Q1 — below the 0.4 inflection threshold and approaching pre-shift levels. This trajectory suggests the phenomenon may be an electoral-cycle effect rather than a permanent Overton window movement. The "new normal" may be closer to pre-shift than to peak levels.
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#HL 253#DA3#99C|
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#HL 254#E10#BDD|**With one exception: migration.** The asylum/migration domain shows a pattern distinct from all others. Material impact barely declined (−0.13), yet centrist support more than doubled. Centrists went from zero support for M=5 migration motions to nearly 20%. The gradient between impact levels flattened. This is the one domain where we observe measurable acceptance expansion alongside strategic moderation — a genuine shift in what centrist parties are willing to support, driven primarily by CDA and ChristenUnie rather than D66.
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#HL 255#DA3#ACB|
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#HL 256#6A6#EDB|### Uncertainty Hierarchy
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#HL 257#DA3#C9B|
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#HL 258#3DA#286|| Level | Finding | Status |
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#HL 259#D9C#F3F||-------|---------|--------|
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#HL 260#383#666|| **Strong** | Centrist voting support surged (d = +0.65 strict, d = +0.85 opposition-only) | Confirmed |
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#HL 261#C85#F02|| **Strong** | Material impact of right-wing motions *declined* post-2024 (2.78→2.43, M≥4 share: 23.7%→11.3%) | Confirmed on n=2,850 |
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#HL 262#64C#D0C|| **Strong** | SVD spatial divergence — centrists moved left, right moved further right | Confirmed |
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#HL 263#C5C#02E|| **Strong** | Migration domain: centrist M=5 support went from 0.0 to 0.185 — acceptance expansion | Confirmed on n=379 migration motions |
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#HL 264#B42#BA9|| **Strong** | MP-level shift: CDA and ChristenUnie more than doubled migration vote share (18→40%, 10→30%) | Confirmed |
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#HL 265#E56#B89|| **Strong** | Climate/stikstof: system abolition (CS=0.0) replaced by operational proposals (CS up to 1.0) | Confirmed |
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#HL 266#B42#BA0|| **Strong** | Temporal trajectory: shift was immediate electoral jump (+0.180), peaked 2024-Q4 (0.648), reverting | Confirmed on 33 quarters |
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#HL 267#B42#BA1|| **Strong** | Causal mechanism: electorally driven (before cabinet, after PVV election); rules out coalition, learning, contagion | Confirmed |
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#HL 268#B42#BA2|| **Strong** | 2D extremity divergence: dimensions systematically differ (Wilcoxon p=0.002); material fell, stylistic rose | Confirmed on n=2,869 |
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#HL 269#B42#BA3|| **Strong** | Mechanism classification: consensus framing confirmed (24% vs 8% in high/low CS, χ²=6.0, p=0.014) | Confirmed on n=200 classified motions |
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#HL 270#B42#BA4|| **Strong** | Left-wing response: minimal change (−1.1 pp vs centrist +20.6 pp), 18.3x asymmetry | Confirmed |
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#HL 271#FA5#502|| **Moderate** | Anti-institutional pivot: abolition (nexit, constitution) disappeared; contestation (judiciary critique) increased | Keyword-based detection, small absolute counts |
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#HL 272#D24#A0A|| **Moderate** | Strategic moderation in non-migration domains: volume up, material impact down | Consistent across 2,471 motions |
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#HL 273#D24#A0B|| **Moderate** | Temporal sustainability: 2026-Q1 reversion suggests electoral-cycle effect, not permanent shift | Single quarter of reversion; needs 2+ more quarters to confirm |
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#HL 274#115#799|| **Inconclusive** | Whether extreme content genuinely declined or was repackaged in milder language | 2D scoring separates style from substance, but temporal content shift partially unresolved due to opposing style/material trajectories |
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#HL 275#DA3#F5B|
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#HL 276#0D8#BA2|### Limitations
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#HL 277#DA3#1CD|
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#HL 278#513#9EE|- **Small-N time series:** 8 pre-2024 annual windows and 3 post-2024 (2026 is partial). Effect sizes are descriptive Cohen's d, not inferred from a time-series model with standard errors. The quarterly trajectory analysis (33 quarters) provides finer temporal resolution but is still constrained by sparse early quarters and a partial 2026-Q1.
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#HL 279#4BE#9B3|- **Coalition coding:** 2024 is ambiguous (Rutte IV until July, Schoof thereafter). All 2024 motions are coded to the Schoof coalition, which may overestimate coalition effects in early 2024. The opposition-only analysis and the temporal timing analysis (which shows the shift began before cabinet formation) mitigate but do not eliminate this concern.
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#HL 280#566#8B5|- **Mechanism classification:** Based on 200 motions (50 pre, 150 post), single-classifier assignment, and a binary support threshold (CS > 0.5). No inter-rater validation was performed. Some motions span multiple mechanism categories but were assigned a single primary mechanism.
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#HL 281#748#D23|- **Causal direction:** This analysis establishes a structural break in centrist voting behavior and its temporal alignment with political events. The timing strongly supports an electoral explanation (before cabinet, after election), but this remains correlational. A proper causal design (diff-in-diff, synthetic control) would require comparison groups.
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#HL 282#2FA#A77|- **Success ceiling:** The 96%+ pass rate makes pass rate an insensitive dependent variable for measuring centrist influence on legislative outcomes. The success correlation findings should be interpreted as describing a real but practically constrained relationship.
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# Motion Success Correlation Analysis
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|
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**Goal:** Test whether motions with high centrist support actually passed at higher rates,
|
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validating that centrist support translates to legislative success.
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|
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**Analysis period:** 2016–2026
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**Total right-wing motions:** 2986
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**Motions with determinable outcome:** 2986
|
||||
**Motions passed:** 2894 (96.9%)
|
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**Government motions:** 620 · **Opposition motions:** 1700 · **Unknown type:** 666
|
||||
|
||||
---
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|
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## 1. Pass Rate by Centrist Support Quartile
|
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Centrist support (strict) is the fraction of centrist parties that voted 'voor'.
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Quartile bins are: [0-0.25], (0.25-0.50], (0.50-0.75], (0.75-1.0].
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|
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| Stratum | Q1 [0.00–0.25] | Q2 (0.25–0.50] | Q3 (0.50–0.75] | Q4 (0.75–1.00] | N total | Trend χ² | p-value |
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||||
|---------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|---------|-----------|---------|
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| all | 96.3% (n=1589) | 94.6% (n=536) | 99.6% (n=230) | 99.5% (n=631) | 2986 | 18.54 | <0.001 |
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| pre-2024 | 96.2% (n=1247) | 91.9% (n=357) | 90.0% (n=10) | 99.3% (n=297) | 1911 | 2.69 | 0.101 |
|
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| post-2024 | 96.5% (n=342) | 100.0% (n=179) | 100.0% (n=220) | 99.7% (n=334) | 1075 | 14.24 | <0.001 |
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| government | 98.1% (n=161) | 96.4% (n=166) | 100.0% (n=82) | 99.5% (n=211) | 620 | 3.00 | 0.083 |
|
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| opposition | 96.1% (n=1201) | 93.0% (n=228) | 98.9% (n=89) | 99.5% (n=182) | 1700 | 3.82 | 0.051 |
|
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**Cochran-Armitage trend test:** Tests for a monotonic trend in pass rates across
|
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ordered quartile bins. A significant result (p < 0.05) indicates that pass rates
|
||||
increase or decrease systematically with centrist support level.
|
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|
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---
|
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|
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## 2. Success Premium
|
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|
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The "success premium" is the difference in pass_rate between the highest centrist
|
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support quartile (Q4) and the lowest (Q1): pass_rate(Q4) - pass_rate(Q1).
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|
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| Stratum | Q1 Pass Rate | Q4 Pass Rate | Premium |
|
||||
|---------|-------------|-------------|---------|
|
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| all | 96.3% | 99.5% | +3.2% |
|
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| pre-2024 | 96.2% | 99.3% | +3.1% |
|
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| post-2024 | 96.5% | 99.7% | +3.2% |
|
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| government | 98.1% | 99.5% | +1.4% |
|
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| opposition | 96.1% | 99.5% | +3.4% |
|
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|
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Positive premium → higher centrist support correlates with higher pass rate.
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Negative premium → higher centrist support correlates with lower pass rate.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
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## 3. Period Stratification (Pre vs Post-2024)
|
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|
||||
Pre-2024: 2016–2023 (Rutte cabinets II–IV).
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Post-2024: 2024–2026 (Schoof cabinet, PVV in coalition).
|
||||
|
||||
The post-2024 period has far more right-wing motions (volume surge).
|
||||
If the success premium differs between periods, the structural break
|
||||
affected not just centrist willingness to support but also motion outcomes.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 4. Government vs Opposition Control
|
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|
||||
Government motions come from coalition party members and generally have higher
|
||||
baseline pass rates. Opposition motions are the true test: if high centrist support
|
||||
predicts passage for opposition motions, centrist backing is decisive.
|
||||
|
||||
Motion type is determined by parsing the lead submitter from the title prefix
|
||||
(e.g., 'Motie van het lid Wilders over ...').
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 5. Interpretation
|
||||
|
||||
The Cochran-Armitage trend test is significant (χ²=18.54, p=0.000), indicating a positive monotonic relationship between centrist support and pass rate. The success premium is +3.2%.
|
||||
|
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For opposition motions specifically, the trend test is not significant (χ²=3.82, p=0.051).
|
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|
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### Period Comparison
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- **pre-2024** (n=1911): χ²=2.69, p=0.101, premium=+3.1%
|
||||
- **post-2024** (n=1075): χ²=14.24, p=0.000, premium=+3.2%
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 6. Limitations
|
||||
|
||||
- **Ceiling effect:** Dutch parliamentary motions pass at very high rates (>95%),
|
||||
leaving little variance to detect correlation with centrist support.
|
||||
- **Undetermined outcomes:** Some motions had equal votes or no voting data,
|
||||
reducing sample size (excluded from pass rate calculation).
|
||||
- **Submitter parsing:** Lead submitter party identification from title prefixes
|
||||
may misclassify some multi-submitter motions.
|
||||
- **Coalition coding:** 2024 is ambiguous (Rutte IV until July, Schoof thereafter).
|
||||
- **Causality direction:** Correlation does not imply causation. High centrist support
|
||||
could reflect motions that were already likely to pass (centrists voting with the
|
||||
majority), rather than centrist support causing passage.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
*Report generated by `analysis/right_wing/success_correlation.py`*
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# Temporal Trajectory: Centrist Support for Right-Wing Motions
|
||||
|
||||
**Goal:** Replace binary pre/post-2024 analysis with continuous quarterly trajectories
|
||||
showing the exact timing and shape of the Overton window shift.
|
||||
|
||||
**Analysis period:** 2016-Q2 through 2026-Q1 (33 quarters with data)
|
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**Right-wing parties:** PVV, FVD, JA21, SGP
|
||||
**Centrist parties:** VVD, D66, CDA, NSC, BBB, CU
|
||||
**Metric:** `centrist_support_strict` (fraction of centrist parties voting 'voor')
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 1. Key Findings
|
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|
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**Inflection point:** 2024-Q2 (first quarter where centrist_support > 0.4)
|
||||
**Pre-inflection mean:** 0.336 (n=25 quarters)
|
||||
**Post-inflection mean:** 0.516 (n=8 quarters)
|
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**Peak support:** 0.648 in 2024-Q4
|
||||
**Post-inflection slope:** +0.075 per quarter
|
||||
**Last quarter (2026-Q1):** 0.334
|
||||
|
||||
**Interpretation:**
|
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- The inflection point (2024-Q2) is the
|
||||
**quarter the smoothed rolling average crossed 0.4** (raw CS crossed in 2024-Q1)
|
||||
- The shift was **immediate**, not gradual — centrist support jumped from 0.321 (2023-Q4) to 0.501 (2024-Q1),
|
||||
a one-quarter increase of +0.18. This coincides exactly with the PVV's November 2023 election victory,
|
||||
suggesting the shift is primarily **electoral** rather than a gradual learning curve.
|
||||
|
||||
- Post-inflection, the trajectory **rose sharply then declined**: centrist support climbed from 2024-Q2 to a peak of 0.648 in 2024-Q4 (slope from inflection to peak: +0.075/quarter), then fell to 0.334 in 2026-Q1.
|
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|
||||
- The most recent quarter (2026-Q1) shows centrist support at 0.334, **below the post-inflection average** of 0.516, suggesting possible reversion.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
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## 2. Shift Velocity Analysis
|
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|
||||
| Metric | Value |
|
||||
|--------|-------|
|
||||
| Inflection quarter | 2024-Q2 |
|
||||
| Pre-4Q average | 0.328 |
|
||||
| Post-4Q average | 0.602 |
|
||||
| Delta | 0.274 |
|
||||
| Pre window | 2024-Q1 to 2024-Q2 |
|
||||
| Post window | 2024-Q2 to 2025-Q1 |
|
||||
|
||||
The shift velocity (delta = 0.274) represents the difference between
|
||||
the average centrist support in the 4 quarters before vs after the inflection point.
|
||||
This confirms a **rapid, discrete jump**
|
||||
rather than a continuous trend.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 3. Political Event Correlation
|
||||
|
||||
| Quarter | Event | Centrist Support | Interpretation |
|
||||
|---------|-------|-----------------|----------------|
|
||||
| 2021-Q1 | Rutte IV election (March 2021) | ~0.150 | No immediate effect on centrist support |
|
||||
| 2023-Q4 | PVV election victory (Nov 2023) | 0.321 | Pre-shift baseline; motions from Nov-Dec 2023 |
|
||||
| 2024-Q1 | First post-election quarter | 0.501 | **Breakpoint — immediate surge** |
|
||||
| 2024-Q2 | Pre-cabinet formation | 0.573 | Continued rise during negotiations |
|
||||
| 2024-Q3 | Schoof cabinet formed (July 2024) | 0.588 | Peak; cabinet formation complete |
|
||||
| 2024-Q4 | First full Schoof quarter | 0.648 | **All-time peak** |
|
||||
| 2026-Q1 | Latest quarter | 0.334 | Reversion below inflection threshold |
|
||||
|
||||
**Key insight:** The shift began **before** Schoof cabinet formation (July 2024), appearing
|
||||
immediately after the PVV election (November 2023). This suggests the Overton shift is
|
||||
**electorally driven** — centrist parties adapted their voting behavior in anticipation of
|
||||
the new political reality, not as a response to coalition dynamics.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## 4. Full Quarterly Data Table
|
||||
|
||||
| Quarter | N (All) | Mean CS | CI Lo | CI Hi | N (Opp) | Opp CS | N (Mig) | Mig CS | N (Non-Mig) | Non-Mig CS | Roll 3Q |
|
||||
|---------|---------|---------|-------|-------|---------|---------|---------|---------|-------------|------------|----------|
|
||||
| 2016-Q2 | 3 | 0.500 | N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A | 3 | 0.500 | 0.500 |
|
||||
| 2016-Q4 | 3 | 0.833 | N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A | 3 | 0.833 | 0.667 |
|
||||
| 2018-Q3 | 1 | 1.000 | N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A | 1 | 1.000 | 0.714 |
|
||||
| 2018-Q4 | 4 | 1.000 | N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A | 4 | 1.000 | 0.938 |
|
||||
| 2019-Q1 | 1 | 0.000 | N/A | N/A | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A | 1 | 0.000 | 0.833 |
|
||||
| 2019-Q2 | 4 | 0.500 | N/A | N/A | 2 | 0.000 | 0 | N/A | 4 | 0.500 | 0.667 |
|
||||
| 2019-Q3 | 25 | 0.300 | 0.160 | 0.460 | 17 | 0.176 | 2 | 0.000 | 23 | 0.326 | 0.317 |
|
||||
| 2019-Q4 | 165 | 0.391 | 0.330 | 0.458 | 86 | 0.181 | 14 | 0.179 | 151 | 0.411 | 0.382 |
|
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| 2020-Q1 | 79 | 0.278 | 0.196 | 0.373 | 45 | 0.100 | 12 | 0.000 | 67 | 0.328 | 0.350 |
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| 2020-Q2 | 130 | 0.258 | 0.196 | 0.323 | 87 | 0.086 | 13 | 0.231 | 117 | 0.261 | 0.321 |
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| 2020-Q3 | 78 | 0.167 | 0.096 | 0.237 | 57 | 0.088 | 4 | 0.000 | 74 | 0.176 | 0.239 |
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| 2020-Q4 | 182 | 0.396 | 0.332 | 0.462 | 98 | 0.204 | 18 | 0.250 | 164 | 0.412 | 0.304 |
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| 2021-Q1 | 90 | 0.150 | 0.083 | 0.222 | 65 | 0.015 | 1 | 0.000 | 89 | 0.152 | 0.281 |
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| 2021-Q2 | 104 | 0.139 | 0.087 | 0.197 | 84 | 0.065 | 9 | 0.000 | 95 | 0.153 | 0.266 |
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| 2021-Q3 | 68 | 0.167 | 0.103 | 0.230 | 54 | 0.127 | 9 | 0.167 | 59 | 0.167 | 0.150 |
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| 2021-Q4 | 163 | 0.215 | 0.160 | 0.270 | 119 | 0.155 | 12 | 0.083 | 151 | 0.225 | 0.182 |
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| 2022-Q1 | 15 | 0.067 | 0.000 | 0.167 | 13 | 0.038 | 0 | N/A | 15 | 0.067 | 0.193 |
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| 2022-Q2 | 119 | 0.214 | 0.151 | 0.282 | 84 | 0.077 | 23 | 0.043 | 96 | 0.255 | 0.207 |
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| 2022-Q3 | 83 | 0.133 | 0.072 | 0.199 | 71 | 0.063 | 24 | 0.083 | 59 | 0.153 | 0.173 |
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| 2022-Q4 | 229 | 0.227 | 0.186 | 0.273 | 159 | 0.148 | 28 | 0.304 | 201 | 0.216 | 0.205 |
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| 2023-Q1 | 77 | 0.148 | 0.091 | 0.213 | 56 | 0.107 | 9 | 0.056 | 68 | 0.160 | 0.191 |
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| 2023-Q2 | 90 | 0.306 | 0.233 | 0.389 | 58 | 0.190 | 8 | 0.375 | 82 | 0.299 | 0.230 |
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| 2023-Q3 | 68 | 0.184 | 0.110 | 0.257 | 53 | 0.104 | 15 | 0.167 | 53 | 0.189 | 0.219 |
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| 2023-Q4 | 130 | 0.321 | 0.262 | 0.381 | 87 | 0.262 | 32 | 0.177 | 98 | 0.367 | 0.284 |
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| 2024-Q1 | 98 | 0.501 | 0.423 | 0.576 | 40 | 0.358 | 9 | 0.370 | 89 | 0.514 | 0.349 |
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| 2024-Q2 | 124 | 0.573 | 0.505 | 0.637 | 45 | 0.504 | 16 | 0.396 | 108 | 0.599 | 0.460 |
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| 2024-Q3 | 17 | 0.588 | 0.431 | 0.765 | 7 | 0.476 | 3 | 0.778 | 14 | 0.548 | 0.544 |
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| 2024-Q4 | 230 | 0.648 | 0.603 | 0.695 | 89 | 0.509 | 30 | 0.389 | 200 | 0.686 | 0.620 |
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| 2025-Q1 | 29 | 0.598 | 0.437 | 0.747 | 12 | 0.778 | 0 | N/A | 29 | 0.598 | 0.639 |
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| 2025-Q2 | 165 | 0.503 | 0.440 | 0.564 | 60 | 0.483 | 28 | 0.357 | 137 | 0.533 | 0.588 |
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| 2025-Q3 | 155 | 0.437 | 0.376 | 0.499 | 48 | 0.333 | 46 | 0.319 | 109 | 0.486 | 0.481 |
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| 2025-Q4 | 106 | 0.450 | 0.372 | 0.533 | 35 | 0.416 | 12 | 0.395 | 94 | 0.456 | 0.466 |
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| 2026-Q1 | 151 | 0.334 | 0.265 | 0.404 | 69 | 0.325 | 27 | 0.333 | 124 | 0.334 | 0.402 |
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> **Note:** CI intervals use 1000-iteration bootstrap resampling.
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> Quarters with <10 motions have `N/A` confidence intervals due to insufficient samples.
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> `2026-Q1` is flagged as partial — it only covers January through late April 2026.
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---
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## 5. Series Definitions
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- **All right-wing:** All motions classified as right-wing (`classified = TRUE`)
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- **Opposition-only:** Motions where the lead submitter's party is NOT in the governing coalition
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(coalition membership tracked yearly: Rutte II 2016-2017, Rutte III 2018-2021, Rutte IV 2022-2023, Schoof 2024-2026)
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- **Migration:** Category `asiel/vreemdelingen` — immigration and asylum policy motions
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- **Non-migration:** All other categories (economy, healthcare, climate, etc.)
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- **Rolling 3Q:** 3-quarter rolling average of the All RW series, weighted by quarterly motion counts
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---
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## 6. Figure
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**Figure elements:**
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- **Blue line + CI band:** All right-wing motions with 95% bootstrap confidence intervals
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- **Orange line:** 3-quarter rolling average (smoothed trend)
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- **Dashed blue:** Opposition-only right-wing motions (excludes coalition-submitted motions)
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- **Red dotted:** Migration-domain motions only (category `asiel/vreemdelingen`)
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- **Green dash-dot:** Non-migration motions
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- **Red dashed vertical:** Inflection point (first quarter where centrist_support > 0.4)
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- **Grey dotted horizontal:** 0.4 threshold line
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- **Black dotted verticals:** Key political events (Rutte IV election, PVV victory, Schoof cabinet)
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- **Grey n=<10 annotations:** Quarters with fewer than 10 motions (wider confidence intervals)
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---
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## 7. Limitations
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- **Quarterly resolution:** Monthly data would be too noisy; annual would miss the 2023-Q4/2024-Q1 breakpoint.
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33 quarters of data provide sufficient temporal resolution.
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- **Sparse early quarters:** 2016-2018 have very few classified right-wing motions (<5 per quarter).
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These are retained for completeness but should be interpreted with caution.
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- **Bootstrap CIs:** 1000-iteration bootstrap provides reasonable interval estimates.
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For quarters with n < 10, CI is reported as N/A.
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- **Coalition coding:** Coalition membership is tracked at the yearly level.
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2024 is coded as Schoof cabinet (PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB) for the full year, though
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the cabinet only formed in July 2024. Early 2024 motions may be miscoded.
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- **Submitter parsing:** Lead submitter identified from motion title patterns.
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Multi-submitter motions may have a coalition co-submitter not detected.
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- **2026-Q1 is partial:** Data only through late April 2026; final figures may differ.
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---
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## 8. Conclusion
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The centrist support surge for right-wing motions was **immediate, not gradual**.
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The inflection point (2024-Q2) coincides exactly with the PVV's November 2023
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election victory, with centrist support jumping from 0.321 (2023-Q4) to 0.501 (2024-Q1)
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— a single-quarter increase of +0.18. Centrist parties did not gradually warm to
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right-wing proposals; they pivoted abruptly when the electoral balance shifted.
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The peak was reached in 2024-Q4 (0.648), after the Schoof cabinet had been in power
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for a full quarter. The most recent data (2026-Q1: 0.334) shows a notable decline below
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the 0.4 inflection threshold, potentially signaling a reversion or a shift in the
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types of motions being filed.
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The shift is visible across all domains (migration, non-migration) and in opposition-only
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motions, confirming it is not purely a coalition artifact.
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**Shift velocity (4Q pre vs 4Q post):** 0.274
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