“Gender and the Radical Right in Western Europe. A united party-family?”

The scholarly consensus is that radical right parties are conservative in their views of gender relations. These views may vary from extreme conservative to modern conservative, but all radical right parties are supposed to share a communitarian perspective, and to regard the traditional family as a core institution of society. Up-to-date and systematic research regarding gender and the far right is still scarce, however. This paper aims to fill in this gap by analyzing to what extent far right parties are ideologically on a par with each other. A second question that will be addressed is whether radical right parties have modernized /moderated their positions with regard to gender over the past two decades.  A combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses of party documents will be used to assess the positions of the six electorally most successful radical right parties over the past two decades.