Strasbourg Conference Presentation on the Extreme Right

Here is a short presentation on the electorates of the Western European Extreme Right I gave last Thursday at the Collège Doctoral Européen de Strasbourg.

And here is the

Summary

• Clear socio-demographic profile: young, male, working/lower middle class
• Clear attitudinal profile:
  • Not necessarily fully paid-up extremists
  • But dissatisfied with politics and suspicious of immigrants and elites
• Little support for disintegration thesis
• Personality traits and additional factor?
• Findings in line with theories of values, preferences, group conflict
• Contextual factors often make a difference

But …

• Very strong country effects remain after controlling for context
• Serious limits on the number and quality contextual control variables
• More/better information on parties needed
• Comparative media studies sorely lacking