This article reviews three strands in the scholarship on the populist radical right (PRR). It
covers both political parties and extra-parliamentary mobilization in contemporary European …

Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in
states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small …

Most concepts in the social sciences are contested, but few are what WB Gallie has called
essentially contested concepts, ie “concepts the proper use of which inevitably involves …

Populism is a concept that is currently in vogue among political commentators and, more
often than not, used pejoratively. The phenomenon of populism is typically seen as …

How is populism distributed over the political spectrum? Are right-wing parties more populist
than left-wing parties? Based on the analysis of 32 parties in five Western European …

This study examines the relationship between educational attainment and euroscepticism
from 1973 to 2010. Existing research has shown that, driven by utilitarian considerations …

In parliament, populist parties express their positions almost every day through voting. There
is great diversity among them, for instance between left-wing and right-wing populist parties …

It has been suggested that political distrust is associated with lower levels of voter turnout
and increased votes for challenger or populist parties. We investigate the relationship …

This article analyses the impact of populist right-wing parties (PRWPs) on welfare state
reforms in Western Europe in the light of the trade-off that they face between office and …

This book adopts an innovative conceptualization and analytical framework to the study of
anti-system parties, and represents the first monograph ever published on the topic. It …