ABSTRACT
The same framework of the emergence and the success of new challenger parties is applied to Extreme Right Parties (ERPs) in this and the next chapters. In this chapter, I examine the contribution of social-economic and political conditions; in Chapter 9, I investigate the overall electoral fortunes of ERPs, covering all three dimensions of socio-economic, political, and institutional conditions. In section 8.1, I review the literature about the success of ERPs and the estimation models used in that research. In section 8.2, I formulate four hypotheses regarding the socio-economic conditions for the rise of ERPs and test in section 8.3 their relevance for the entire set of ERPs, as selected in Chapter 3. The same analyses are applied to the subsets of Neo-Liberal Parties (mainly Populist Reform Parties and Populist Ethno-Regionalist Parties) and neoconservative parties (mainly Racist Authoritarian Parties and Neo-Fascist Parties) as classified in Chapter 3. In section 8.4, I present six hypotheses regarding the political conditions (i.e. informal POS) for the development of ERPs, and test them accordingly in section 8.5. The findings in this chapter are summed up in section 8.6.
