Examining the (Niche) Electoral Successes of Radical Right Parties

• In Event: Populist and Anti-Establishment Parties

Brief Overview

We examine radical right party electoral success in Europe using a new measure of party nicheness. Comparing populist and neofascist parties’ average and median district magnitudes, we find their success is strategic and possibly cyclical.

Author

• Lewis Alexander Luartz, University of California-Riverside