Radical Right

Existing literature treats popular support for liberal democratic values as a key check on illiberal actors, yet recent work shows declared democratic support can coexist with tolerance for backsliding. The argument advanced here is that social norms create incentives to publicly oppose illiberal actors without sincerely holding those views. These actors are labeled "staged democrats": people who cosmetically endorse democratic norms but do not genuinely punish illiberal politics. Because staged democrats signal rather than sincerely oppose illiberalism, they are not a stable safeguard—information shocks can reveal their insincerity and change political outcomes.

Do radical right parties need to distance themselves from past right-wing authoritarian regimes to win votes? This study probes the reputational cost, if any, of association with anti-democratic regimes, and the paper confronts challenges that make that cost hard to observe.

This study investigates how the removal of malicious bots on Twitter affects follower counts among EU politicians.

This article asks whether three different justification framings for a road traffic emission trading system (ETS)—energy independence, economic resilience, and efficient climate mitigation—change public acceptance depending on people’s party preference and their level of political trust. Using an online survey experiment in Finland, the authors examine how framing effects vary across supporters of different parties and among respondents with high versus low political trust, and report that framing effects are conditional rather than uniform.

This study asks whether far‑right electoral victories change how street‑level bureaucrats treat minority service seekers, focusing on registration with general practitioners in Italian municipalities. It combines an audit-style field experiment that varied callers’ accents with a regression discontinuity design around close mayoral elections to compare responses in places where far‑right candidates narrowly won versus lost. The central contribution is evidence about whether electoral outcomes at the municipal level are associated with changes in bureaucratic impartiality in a concrete public-service interaction.

How does visible Muslim presence shape support for right-wing populists? The study examines the relationship between mosque visibility and votes for the Front National at the polling-station level in France in the late 2000s.

This article asks whether Western democracies still possess the domestic political support needed to sustain liberal internationalism. Using cross‑national data on 24 industrialized democracies and hundreds of parties, the authors trace trends since the end of the Cold War and document a widening gap between governments' international ambitions and domestic party-level capacity to back them. They argue mainstream pro‑integration parties have lost ground to both radical-left and anti‑globalist radical‑right parties, and they consider what this means for the liberal international order.

Gender disparities persist in radical right party (RRP) voting despite similar policy preferences on key issues like immigration. This article reveals an unexpected finding: women are more motivated than men to control prejudice, particularly toward groups RRP policies might target.