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International Journal of Public Opinion Research Advance Access originally published online on October 18, 2007
International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2007 19(4):474-487; doi:10.1093/ijpor/edm031
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.

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Causes of Voting for the Radical Right

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Editors’ Note: The manuscript below by Wouter van der Brug and Meindert Fennema started as a book review, which grew into a full-length argument about recent research on the topic of the radical-right electorate. The International Journal of Public Opinion Research had the manuscript reviewed as a regular research article, and the reviewers suggested publication because they thought that the arguments were valuable for the international public opinion research community. Accepting the manuscript for publication, the editors also offered the authors whose work is criticized in the manuscript the chance to respond. Marco Giugni and Ruud Koopmans took this chance, and their rejoinder is also published here.

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What Causes People to Vote for a Radical-Right Party? A Review of Recent Work

Wouter van der Brug and Meindert Fennema

Address correspondence to Wouter van der Brug, University of Amsterdam, Department of Political Science, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 237, 1012 DK Amsterdam, The Netherlands, w.vanderbrug@uva.nl

Over the past two decades, Western Europe has experienced the surge of parties such as Front Nationale in France, Vlaams Belang (formerly Vlaams Blok) in Belgium, and the Danish Peoples Party in Denmark. They are often called radical-right parties (Norris, 2005), . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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