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Explaining the emergence of radical right-wing populist parties: the case of Denmark.
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West European Politics
- Article date:
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May 1, 2004
- Author:
- Rydgren, Jens
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This article aims to explain the emergence of the Danish People's Party, a radical right-wing populist party, by using a model combining political opportunity structures and the diffusion of new master frames. The article shows that because of dealignment and realignment processes--as well as the politicisation of the immigration issue--niches were created on the electoral arena. The Danish People's Party was able to mine these niches by adopting a master frame combining ethno-pluralist xenophobia and anti-political establishment populism, which had proved itself successful elsewhere in Western Europe (originally in France in the mid-1980s). In this process of adaptation, a far right ...