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Rydgren (sociology, Stockholm U.) begins by defining radical right-wing populism, and outlining a theoretically based model for explaining the emergence of electoral success for such parties in some Western European countries and not in others. Then he uses that model to explain the emergence of the New Democracy Party in Sweden in the 1991 election, why it broke up and vanished soon after, and why no party has emerged to replace it since 1994. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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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.
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