Why is there more support for extreme right-wing parties in some countries than others?

Swiss Diploma Thesis in the subject Politics - Other International Politics Topics, grade: 1st, , course: International Relations, language: English, abstract: This dissertation examines the increased support for right-wing populist parties and aims to explain its uneven results between the different European member States. To answer this question, four main explanatory variables are assessed: Demographic factors, structural ones, unemployment and immigration level. In addition, two opposite case studies are selected, Portugal and Sweden, to measure the dependent variable, right-wing populist support, against the independent one which is an anti-immigration belief. Finished the comparative analysis and quantitative research, two substantive conclusions are obtained: First, feared immigration, due to its cultural consequences, is the primary reason why voters support right-wing populist parties. Second, no country in Europe has enough different demographic factors or political structures prone to ignore this phenomenon.