Right-wing Radical Populism in City and Suburbs: An Electoral Geography of the Partij Voor de Vrijheid in the Netherlands

Urban Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1775-1794

  van Gent, Wouter P C ^a   Jansen, Elmar F ^a   Smits, Joost H F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Political Academy   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

anti immigration; class; electoral geography; gentrification; new towns; revanchism; right wing radical populist parties; suburbanisation

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; ELECTORAL SYSTEM; GENTRIFICATION; IMMIGRATION POLICY; NATIONALISM; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; POPULISM; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBURBANIZATION;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84893458331     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098013505889     Document Type: Article

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