From tax populism to ethnic nationalism : radical right-wing populism in Sweden

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From tax populism to ethnic nationalism : radical right-wing populism in Sweden

Jens Rydgren

Berghahn Books, 2006

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Från skattemissnöje till etnisk nationalism

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-133) and index

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During the last 15-20 years a new party family of radical right-wing populism (RRP) has emerged in Western Europe, consisting of parties such as the French Front National and the Austrian Freedom's Party, among many others. Contrary to the situation in the other Scandinavian countries, such parties have been largely unsuccessful in Sweden. Although Sweden saw the emergence of the populist party New Democracy - which partly can be classified as a RRP party - in the early 1990s, it collapsed in 1994, and no party has so far been successful enough to take its place. Most of the literature on populism and right-wing extremism deals with successful cases; this book takes the opposite direction and asks how one can explain the failure of Swedish radical right-wing populism.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. What Are Tax Populism and Radical Right-Wing Populism? Chapter 2. Why Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Arise? Chapter 3. The Rise of New Democracy Chapter 4. The Fall of New Democracy Chapter 5. Why Has There Been No Successful Swedish RRP Party Since 1994? Afterword References Index

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