Abstract
Despite the fact that extreme-right wing parties embrace populism (Betz 1993; Mudde 2007), or as some claim, neo-fascism (Griffin 1998), several of these parties have attracted voters in the past two decades, capturing seats in Belgian, Italian, Norwegian, and Danish parliaments, and winning a high proportion of the vote in Switzerland. Their success is particularly visible in Austria, where two extreme right wing parties (the Austria Freedom Party, FPO and the Alliance for the Future of Austria, BZO) have together won between a quarter and a third of all votes nationwide. What explains this outpouring of popular support for the extreme right in Austria? Using pooled time series analyses on all 121 political districts for the national elections between 1990 and 2008, we consider a range of social and structural explanations commonly associated with right wing extremist support and find increased center right-wing support, high turnout and rural areas to be negatively related to high vote shares for the two Austrian extreme right parties. Unsurprisingly, we also uncover that the vote share for the FPO and BZO is higher in Carinthia.
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