A Historical Perspective on the Conditions for the Rise of Far-Right Parties in Scandinavia

Abstract

Subject and purpose of work: This article analyzes the factors depicted in the literature as essential for the emergence of far-right parties and assesses the importance of unemployment, immigration and political establishments in the failures of the far-right wing parties in Sweden and Finland in early 2000s.

Keywords

• far-right parties
• extremism
• xenophobia
• anti-immigration
• nationalism
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