The author analyses the reasons behind the electoral success of European right-wing populist parties. Using the Austrian Freedom Party under J???rg Haider as a case study and with a richness of primary material, he argues that their success is only partly caused by ???racism???. It is also, and more prominently, the result of populism - i.e. a critique of the ???elite???. These parties and their voters should not, then, be labelled as arrogant insiders attacking downtrodden outsiders like immigrants, workers, and minorities ...
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The author analyses the reasons behind the electoral success of European right-wing populist parties. Using the Austrian Freedom Party under J???rg Haider as a case study and with a richness of primary material, he argues that their success is only partly caused by ???racism???. It is also, and more prominently, the result of populism - i.e. a critique of the ???elite???. These parties and their voters should not, then, be labelled as arrogant insiders attacking downtrodden outsiders like immigrants, workers, and minorities. Instead, the right-wingers are more justly portrayed as outsiders and underdogs, raising their anger and frustration against the insiders: the ???media elite??? and the ???leftists and the artists???.
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