Abstract
The first case study presented in this book covers the Netherlands. This chapter seeks to identify the populist parties that have appeared in contemporary Dutch politics, to describe their ideological characteristics and to explain their electoral performance on the basis of the explanatory model outlined in Chapter 1. I will thus discuss the role of the electoral system, the responsiveness of established parties with regard to the issues central to the appeal of the populist challengers, and the electoral credibility of the populist parties themselves. The four themes central to the appeal of many populist parties (culture and ethnicity; economic hardship; European integration; and corruption) are discussed insofar as they have been relevant to the electoral competition between the populist parties and their mainstream competitors.
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