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Research Project: The Extreme Right Vote in Western Europe 1980-2002/2003

Right Wing Extremism, Radicalism, Populism in Europe?

Since the 1980s, parties that are dubbed as right wing extremist, radical or populist have made remarkable gains in countries such as France, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Norway, Denmark, or Switzerland. This is a long term research project, which analyses the individual and contextual factors related to the varying electoral success of the parties of the "extreme", "radical", "populist" or "far" right in Western Europe during the last 25 years or so.

Monograph on Right Wing Extremist Voters in Western Europe

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The project's main outcome is a monograph published by VS in 2008.

E-Book

Springer has kindly produced an E-Book edition of this book http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91009-3. Many German university libraries have a subscription for the book.

Data & methodology

At the heart of the analysis is a complex multi-level model that spans 15 countries and 23 years. Multilevel replication data and scripts for Stata and MLWin are available via my dataverse.

Summary and key findings on the Extreme Right vote: Who votes for the Extreme Right?

The shortest possible summary is this:

• The Extreme Right has a clear social profile
• The salience of issues in elite statements matters
• Unemployment and Immigration (Asylum seekers) generally increase support for the Extreme Right
• But fail to do so if unemployment benefits are generous.
• Right wing extremism, i.e. xenophobia and racism, is an important precondition for casting an extreme right vote in all countries but Italy.

A slightly less concise presentation that summarises the project's rationale and some key findings on the Extreme Right vote is available for download, too (PDF, in English). An earlier presentation that puts the project in a somewhat broader context and reports some preliminary results on the Extreme Right vote is also available for download (PDF, in German).

Extreme Right Monograph Online

Courtesy of Google's book search, a large parts of my book on the Extreme Right in Western Europe (in German) is now available online.

Related work

• Contextual Factors and the Extreme Right Vote in Western Europe, 1980-2002 is based on an improved version of the models specified in the monograph. The article will appear in volume 53.2 of the American Journal of Poltical Science
• My EJPR paper on Political Opportunity Structures and Right-Wing Extremist Party Success (Arzheimer/Carter 2006) as well as an earlier paper with Liz Carter on Explaining Variation in the Extreme Right Vote: The Individual and the Political Environment (Arzheimer/Carter 2003) are based on different data and a different methodlogy but pursue closely related questions.
• The European Journal of Political Research has accepted another of our papers on the issue of subnational political opportunity structures in France an the Extreme Right vote for publication.
• A paper on the motives of the Extreme Right voters (Protest, Neo-Liberalism or Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: What Motivates the Voters of the Extreme Right?) was accepted by Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft/Comparative Governance and Politics
• A reconstruction of the Scheuch-Klingemann-Model which is important for the development of the mongraph's theoretical argument was first outlined (and partially tested) in a chapter with Jürgen W. Falter for Hans-Dieter Klingemann's Festschrift (Arzheimer/Falter 2002)

Seminars

Slides and readings lists for my seminars on the Extreme Right are also available for download. Here and here is even more stuff on the Extreme Right (in German).

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