From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism: Radical Right-wing Populism in Sweden

by Jens Rydgren

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845452186
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	08/01/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jens Rydgren is a researcher at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. He is the author of The Populist Challenge: Political Protest and Ethno-nationalist Mobilization in France (Berghahn Books 2003) and of numerous articles dealing with political sociology and ethnic relations.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

“…contributes much needed work on political mobilization and right-wing politics as manifested in the successes and failures of right-wing political parties.”  ·  American Journal of Sociology

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