The connections between political parties and civil society are central to parties’ representative performance. Several explanations exist for cross-party variations in the strength of these connections. However, nobody has compared explanatory power rival theories. This article does just that, using a novel dataset covering 149 29 elections 14 West European countries. It establishes that elite...

When do the media cover far-right protests? News coverage matters for entrenchment of far right in contemporary democracies, but little comparative research has looked at what drives news attention to mobilization. We apply a classic input–output process model selection bias test hypothesis that visibility protests events depends on characteristics protest initiators, type action, and reactions...

Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far-Right: (Unexpected) Results from Austria* This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on the support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. In the state elections in an Austrian state in September 2015 the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPOE) doubled its vote sha...

Existing literature tends to analyse the long-term evolution of far right’s world-view rather than how it responds short-term events. This exploratory study, however, analyses right in Norway framed unprecedented global crisis COVID-19. The data encompasses 149 Facebook posts, online op-eds, columns, letters editor and YouTube videos about COVID-19 published between 1 January 31 May 2020 by two...