Extreme right‐wing voting in Western Europe
2002/05/01 by Marcel Lubbers, Mérove Gijsberts, Peer Scheepers · 1,026 citations
Social Sciences · #Computer science #Democracy #Economics #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #European union #German legal, social, and political studies #Immigration #International trade #Law #Perspective (graphical) #Political science #Politics #Populism, Right-Wing Movements #Public opinion #Voting
paper · doi:10.1111/1475-6765.00015
published in European Journal of Political Research 41(3), 345-378 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2002/05/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Abstract
Abstract In this study we explain extreme right‐wing voting behaviour in the countries of the European Union and Norway from a micro and macro perspective. Using a multidisciplinary multilevel approach, we take into account individual‐level social background characteristics and public opinion alongside country characteristics and characteristics of extreme right‐wing parties themselves. By making use of large‐scale survey data (N = 49,801) together with country‐level statistics and expert survey data, we are able to explain extreme right‐wing voting behaviour from this multilevel perspective. Our results show that cross‐national differences in support of extreme right‐wing parties are particularly due to differences in public opinion on immigration and democracy, the number of non‐Western residents in a country and, above all, to party characteristics of the extreme right‐wing parties themselves.
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