Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University.

"Radical Right is an important new contribution to the social sciences. Scholars from a variety of subfields and disciplines will gain critical insights into relationships between and among voters party elites electoral systems and political institutions as a growing number of democracies struggle with high unemployment globalization increasing racial and ethnic diversity and the social and political costs of legal and illegal immigration on native populations. Sociologists political scientists psychologists and policy makers can learn much from Norrisa meticulous approach to an issue sure to become more salient in the future. " Carol Swain Vanderbilt University

The core puzzle which this book resolves 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 the United States. This book expands our understanding of support for radical right parties by presenting an integrated new theory which is then tested systematically using a wealth of cross-national survey evidence covering almost forty countries.

Part I. Understanding the Radical Right
1. Understanding the rise of the radical right
2. Classifying the radical right
3. Comparing parties

Part II. The Regulated Marketplace
4. Ballot access and campaign finance
5. Electoral systems

Part III. Electoral Demand
6. The 'new cleavage' thesis: the social basis of support
7. 'None of the above': the politics of resentment
8. 'Us and them': immigration multiculturalism and xenophobia

Part IV. Party Supply
9. Location location location: party competition
10. Consolidating party organizations

Part V. Consequences
11. Assessing the rise of the radical right and its consequences.