Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral Market Pippa Norris During recent decades, radical right parties have been surging in popularity in many nations, gaining legislative seats, enjoying the legitimacy endowed by ministerial office, and striding the corridors of government power. The popularity of leaders such as Le Pen, Haider, and Fortuyn has aroused widespread popular concern and a burgeoning scholarly literature. Despite the interest, littler consensus has emerged about the primary factors driving this phenomenon. The core puzzle is to explain why radical right parties have advanced in a diverse array of democracies - including Austria, Canada, Norway, France, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Israel, Romania, Russia and Chile - while failing to make comparable gains in similar societies elsewhere, such as Sweden, Britain and United States. This book expands our understanding of support for radical right parties by presenting and systematically testing an integrated new theory. The wealth of cross-national survey evidence used covers almost forty countries, facilitating a broader perspective than ever seen before. Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her work compares elections and public opinion, gender politics, and political communications. Companion volumes by this author, also published by Cambridge University Press, include A Virtuous Circle (2000), Digital Divide (2001), Democratic Phoenix (2002), Rising Tide (2003), Electoral Engineering (2004), and Sacred and Secular (2004).