The European Mainstream and the Populist Radical Right

Pontus Odmalm is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Eve Hepburn is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.

The European Mainstream and the Populist Radical Right



Acknowledgments










Mainstream Parties, the Populist Radical Right, and the (Alleged) Lack of a Restrictive and Assimilationist Alternative






Pontus Odmalm and Eve Hepburn



2. The European Mainstream and the Populist Radical Right (PRR): The British Case



Rebecca Partos



3. Conflict and Co-operation between the Danish Mainstream as a Condition for Adaptation to the Populist Radical Right



Flemming Juul Christiansen



4. Immigration, Integration and the Finns Party: Issue-ownership by Coincidence or by Stealth?



Mikko Kuisma and Mikael Nygård



5. The French Mainstream and the Front National’s Electoral Fortunes



João Carvalho



6. Accommodating the Dutch Populist Radical Right in a Multi-Party System: Success or Failure?



Marijn van Klingeren, Andrej Zaslove and Bertjan Verbeek



7. Sweden: From Deviant Case to PRR Hotbed?



Anders Widfeldt



8. Concluding Remarks



Pontus Odmalm



Tables and Figures



Chapter 1



Figure 1. Aggregate Manifesto Positions on the Immigration 'Issue' (2002 - 2015)



Table 1. Results for the Populist Radical Right, 1956 – 2015 (%); national/federal level elections



Table 2. Case Parties and Votes (2002 – 2015)



Table 3. Breakdown of Positions on the Immigration ‘Issue’, 2002 – 2015.



Table 4. Was an aggregate R/A-choice offered by one or more mainstream parties? (2002 – 2015)



Table 5. Subcategories of the immigration ‘issue’ where an R/A-choice was offered by one or more mainstream parties (2002 – 2015)



Table 6. Changes to PRR vote share (2002 – 2015)



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