ABSTRACT
Norway and Denmark are often treated as twin cases in the literature on extreme right parties. This is not without justification. In both countries anti-establishment parties on the right, founded by archetypical political entrepreneurs, emerged in the early 1970s. The Danish party started first, and served as something of a role model when the Norwegian party followed suit. From 1977 both parties had identical names. There were also ideological similarities. They started as protest movements against taxes and state bureaucracy, packaging the message in fierce anti-establishment rhetoric. Immigration was added to their agenda in the 1980s, making both parties good examples of Herbert Kitschelt’s “winning formula”, a combination of right-wing economics, authoritarianism and anti-immigration politics. They were politically isolated, and had very little policy impact.
