ABSTRACT
Political life in many European countries has recently witnessed the dramatic rise of the voting rates of extreme right political parties, a phenomenon that has naturally provoked social scientific research. In order to explain the electoral success of the extreme right, social and political scientists have paid attention to various factors. First, they have turned their attention to those conditions that restructured the political spectrum and reorganized political alliances in various countries. Studies have explored the sociopolitical changes that paved the way for extreme right parties to appear as important political agents in particular contexts and have identified similarities, but also striking differences, between the far right camps across Europe (Arzheimer, 2009; Mammone, Godin & Jenkins, 2012; Pauwels, 2014).
