The study of far-right parties and politics is one the most high-profile research areas in political science related disciplines. Far-right have been subject vast amounts varied scholarship since their turn-of-the-century resurgence. However, as far right has become a mainstay, with Brexit election Donald Trump 2016 blurring boundaries between mainstream politics, it crucial to pay attention pr...

Using data drawn from a survey conducted shortly after the 2002 elections, we investigate the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) election victory from the perspective of inter-party vote movements. Our aim is not only to identify the parties from which the AKP votes originated, but also the segments of these parties' voter bases the party appealed to in particular. Descriptive statistics sug...

Political initiatives promoting a far-right agenda have gained significant political influence in Western European democracies. This has occurred despite apparent broad-based public rejection of Europe’s Nazi past. is puzzle, since there are affinities between the old and new far right. article addresses that puzzle. Theoretically, distinguishes broad narrow interpretations what it means to rej...

considering the importance of the right wing parties in iranian political history, this article has tried to provide necessary information and discussions, which help us to understand the reasons of their formation and activities in order to fill the vacuum, which exist in this domain. for this purpose, i have tried to analyze three political phases and their relations to the political awarene...

This paper investigates the macroeconomic and social determinants of voting behavior, especially political polarization – defined here as increasing electoral success far-right far-left parties in 20 advanced countries using annual data from 1970 to 2016 covering 291 parliamentary elections. Our analysis indicates that link between income inequality appears have significantly changed over last ...

Previous research demonstrated that voters for the Dutch radical right party PVV were most stable among highly volatile electorate. However, since 2017 two new parties have successfully entered Parliament: Forum Democracy (FvD) and JA21, conceivably at expense of PVV. The success these is puzzling, because there does not seem to be much room campaigning on a similar platform. In our paper, we u...

This article examines the attitudes of the parties on the left in Italy to moves towards European integration from the Convention on the Future of Europe in 2002-03 to the Lisbon Treaty in 2007. The analysis is contextualised by taking an historical perspective. It is argued that the parties of the left are strongly in favour of a ‘political’ and ‘social’ Europe, whereas the far left is concern...