Abstract While debates about far-right populism often concentrate on Central and Eastern Europe, research these parties predominantly focuses Western countries. Addressing this remarkable gap, article revisits the ‘protest voting’ explanation for electoral support far right. Using European Social Survey data (2002–16) from 22 countries, we show that political dissatisfaction is a stronger expla...

On March 17, 2022, Mr. Evan Balgord, Executive Director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, presented Far-Right Populism in Canada: From M103 to Ottawa Occupation at Digital Roundtable event, hosted by Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS)-Vancouver. The key points discussion included connections between different far-right movements Canada how grievances beliefs on conspirac...

How do European far-right parties reconcile their long-standing nationalism with allegiance to “civilization”? Although they are certainly not contradictory, simultaneously adopting national and supranational identities requires considerable discursive maneuvering articulate clearly. In this article, I argue that the Far Right negotiates boundaries between its through two mechanisms, abstractio...

Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification: First Evidence from Panel Data There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...

There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine whether job loss fears impact on individuals’ party identification. Consist...

Tempers flared in Europe response to the 2015 European Refugee Crisis prompting some countries totally close their borders asylum seekers. This was seen have fueled anti-immigrant sentiment, which grew along with support for far-right political parties that had previously languished. sparked a flurry of research into relationship between immigration and voting, has found mixed nuanced evidence ...

In Western Europe, as immigration flows increase – or at least become more salient and austerity measures place welfare states under pressure, policy reforms that extend restrict access to the state for immigrants are highly contested. Much academic attention has been paid restrictive ‘welfare chauvinist’ role played by far-right parties sympathisers in policy-making process. Yet, left-wing par...

In April 2022, Marine Le Pen, the leader of National Ally, not only entered second round French presidential election again, but also achieved a new high in results far-right parties with 41.45% votes. Similarly, June parliamentary elections, Ally’s seats increased from 9 to 89, which is undoubtedly further affirmation Ally reform. Since 2011, Pen who has carried out top-down reform put forward...

Far-right and populist right-wing political parties have garnered significant scholarly attention in recent years. They acquired importance also European institutions such as the Parliament (EP). We explore this issue by focusing on Conservatives Reformists’ (ECR) group EP. analyse its current former main national party delegations – British Conservative Party, Polish Law Justice Brothers of It...