It is forty-five years since Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan published their famous
'freez ing hypo thesis' of West European party systems (Lipset & Rokkan 1967). 1 While the …

The first part of this article argues that the recent emergence of right‐wing political parties in
Western Europe do not constitute either a return to fascism, a new form of extremism, or …

During the European elections of 2014, one of the main issues raised by the media was the
electoral performance of so-called 'populist parties'. The electorate confirmed its deep …

Ghiţa Ionescu and Ernest Gellner (1969: 1) began their classic edited collection on populism
by paraphrasing Marx and Engel's famous opening line:'A Spectre is haunting the world …

Political devel op ments in Europe during the past twenty years have led to an increased
academic interest in radical right parties as well as the study of Euroscepticism. However …

The 1980s and early 1990s have witnessed, not without some sense of alarm, a rising tide of
right-wing extrem ism. 1 Attacks on immig rants and racist viol ence have occurred with an …

ISSN 0140-2382 Print/1743-9655 Online ª 2007 Herbert Kitschelt DOI: 10.1080/
01402380701617563 cumulative stock of concepts, theories, and empirical indicators on …

This book is a comparative analysis of the post-communist East European radical right, both
in party and non-party formation, using the West European radical right as a baseline …

In recent years more and more studies have pointed to the limitations of demand-side
explanations of the electoral success of populist radical right parties. They argue that supply …