From dusk to dawn: Local party organization and party success of right-wing extremism

Party Politics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 80-92

  Dinas, Elias ^a   Georgiadou, Vassiliki ^b   Konstantinidis, Iannis ^c   Rori, Lamprini ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

grassroots activity; Greece; new party success; political opportunity; Right wing extremism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949966062     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068813511381     Document Type: Article

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