ABSTRACT
The author presents the theoretical framework that is used to explain populist party success. He argues that ideology and attitudes towards specific issues such as immigration and Europeanization, should be taken into account to explain populist voting. Drawing mainly on the sociological and economic model of voting, he further develops the theoretical arguments and hypotheses explaining populist voting. The author presents the theoretical arguments and hypotheses related to the success of populist parties and explain the vote for populist parties. The specificity of populist parties, it is expected that some mechanisms explaining their success are also quite specific and therefore do not receive much attention in classical voting models. In addition to the sociological model, the author also draws on the economic model of voting to explain why people vote for populist parties. To explain the success of populist parties, he will focus on individual factors exploring what is the breeding ground that populists can tap into to mobilize voters.
