The European Mainstream and the Populist Radical Right

The European Mainstream and the Populist Radical Right

Acknowledgments






Mainstream Parties, the Populist Radical Right, and the (Alleged) Lack of a Restrictive and Assimilationist Alternative

Pontus Odmalm and Eve Hepburn

2. The European Mainstream and the Populist Radical Right (PRR): The British Case

Rebecca Partos

3. Conflict and Co-operation between the Danish Mainstream as a Condition for Adaptation to the Populist Radical Right

Flemming Juul Christiansen

4. Immigration, Integration and the Finns Party: Issue-ownership by Coincidence or by Stealth?

Mikko Kuisma and Mikael Nygard

5. The French Mainstream and the Front National's Electoral Fortunes

Joao Carvalho

6. Accommodating the Dutch Populist Radical Right in a Multi-Party System: Success or Failure?

Marijn van Klingeren, Andrej Zaslove and Bertjan Verbeek

7. Sweden: From Deviant Case to PRR Hotbed?

Anders Widfeldt

8. Concluding Remarks

Pontus Odmalm

Tables and Figures

Chapter 1

Figure 1. Aggregate Manifesto Positions on the Immigration 'Issue' (2002 - 2015)

Table 1. Results for the Populist Radical Right, 1956 - 2015 (%); national/federal level elections

Table 2. Case Parties and Votes (2002 - 2015)

Table 3. Breakdown of Positions on the Immigration 'Issue', 2002 - 2015.

Table 4. Was an aggregate R/A-choice offered by one or more mainstream parties? (2002 - 2015)

Table 5. Subcategories of the immigration 'issue' where an R/A-choice was offered by one or more mainstream parties (2002 - 2015)

Table 6. Changes to PRR vote share (2002 - 2015)

Chapter 3

Table 1. Election results (seats gained, 2007-2015)

Table 2. Manifesto and Coalition Agreement Positions (2007)

Table 3: Manifesto and Coalition Agreement Positions (2011)

Table 4: Manifesto and Coalition Agreement Positions (2011)

Chapter 6

Figure 1. Left-right placements by party positions on immigration 'issue' (2006- 2012)

Chapter 7

Figure 1. Proportion of Swedish population with foreign origin, 2000-2015

Figure 2. Public attitudes to immigration in 15 European countries, 2014.

Figure 3. Saliency of immigration issue in Sweden, 1987-2014.

Table 1. Issue ownership of immigration, Sweden 2014. Percentages of voters indicating each parliamentary party as having the best policies on immigration/refugees.

Table 2. Parliamentary election results for New Democracy and Sweden Democrats, 1988-2014

Table 3. Voters' placements of Social Democrat and Moderate parties on a left-right scale, 1979-2014.

Table 4a. Immigration positioning

Table 4b. Summary positions