Zhirkov, Kirill. "Nativist but not alienated: A comparative perspective on the radical right vote in Western Europe". Party Politics, Vol.20, No.2 (2014): 286-296.

Zhirkov, Kirill. "Nativist but not alienated: A comparative perspective on the radical right vote in Western Europe". Party Politics, Vol.20, No.2 (2014): 286-296.

• Radical right parties both cause change and are changed by entry into mainstream politics and inclusion in coalitions. The parties themselves tend to moderate their positions and adapt to common expectations of political behavior, while other right-wing parties tend to be emboldened by radical right parties and adopt more radical policies (286).
• This finding runs counter to common scholarly assumptions that radical right parties are outside 'normal' politics, while in reality these parties compete with moderate right-wing parties, often influencing each others' positions (287).
• The author defines 'radical right parties' as political movement which advocate a major transformation of the current order, while still supporting the basic tenants of liberal democracy -- a trait which distinguishes them from the anti-democratic 'extreme right' (286).
• The author tests a number of hypotheses regarding the radical right, comparing their voter base with the voter base of other political parties and with a pool of non-voters. The author predicts that radical right voters will strong oppose immigration, have low political trust and low levels of satisfaction with politics, be socially alienated and distrustful, unlikely to protest, intolerant of homosexuality, and opposed to redistributive economic policies (287-289).
• A regression analysis determined that while radical right voters are more likely to oppose immigration, have low political trust, and oppose redistributive economics than either other voter bases or non-voters, they are actually more satisfied with politics, unlikely to be distrustful or socially alienated, and no more likely to oppose protest or homosexuality than other voters (291-292).
• The group most commonly associated with the stereotypes of the radical right voter was actually the non-voting population, which tended to be younger, uneducated, poor, opposed to immigration, socially alienated, distrustful, and intolerant of homosexuality (294).
• Analysis shows that radical right voters are disproportionately male. They also tend to be older, uneducated and working class, although these trends are less pronounced than the gender gap (293).
• Radical right parties are driven primarily by nationalism, focused through both anti-immigrant attitudes and opposition to globalization. They tend to support a conservative economic and social order, that of welfare capitalism and ethnic homogeneity in Western European, which they perceive as being threatened (294).
• "Radical right voters’ opposition to mainstream politics is motivated by ideological considerations rather than by simple inability to fit the postmodern society" (294).