The Far Right and the Left Behind: The Demographic Deepening and Surprising Durability of Far Right Parties in Western Europe, 2009-2014
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2017

This project engages with one of the most consequential topics in contemporary party politics: the emergence and persistence of the far right party family in Western Europe. Far right durability, particularly given the increased salience of economic and security issues during and after the Great Recession, serves to highlight the sociodemographic structure of far right electorates and suggests that far right parties participate in a socio-structurally rooted dimension of party competition define