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A New Winning Formula?

The Programmatic Appeal of the Radical Right

Sarah L. de Lange

University of Antwerp, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Political Science, Prinsstraat 13, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium, sarah.delange{at}ua.ac.be

In an updated version of his well-known work on the radical right, Kitschelt attributes the persistent success of this type of party to a new winning formula. Where the radical right first campaigned on a neo-liberal and authoritarian programme, it now presents a more centrist economic position. The article tests this idea through a reconstruction of the positions of the French Front National, the Flemish Vlaams Blok and the Dutch Lijst Pim Fortuyn, and establishes that some, but not all, radical right parties make use of the new winning formula. Moreover, innovative analysis of the positions of radical right parties in West European party systems reveals that Kitschelt's theory needs to be improved on several points, most notably when it comes to the definition of concepts and the operationalization of dimensions.

Key Words: authoritarianism • France • Kitschelt • libertarianism • Low Countries • populism • radical right

Party Politics, Vol. 13, No. 4, 411-435 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1354068807075943
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