International Populism

Abstract

This opening chapter sets out the book’s key questions: How can we explain the different choices radical right populist parties have made regarding the groups they join in the European Parliament? How have they behaved in the parliament within their groups? How do they use their group identities outside parliament? What do these group choices and actions at European level tell us about the past, present and futures of radical right populists, both domestically and internationally? The chapter then introduces the main concepts used in the book and briefly explains the quantitative and qualitative data used to answer these questions, the outline of chapters and some of the main findings.