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date: 28 June 2022

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This chapter discusses the claim that radical right parties are typically led and supported by men, and explores various aspects of gender bias as they relate to radical right parties and support for these parties. The first section considers the so-called gender gap in radical right voting, with women being significantly underrepresented among the radical right electorate compared with men. The second section examines how explanations for radical right voting behavior may differ between women and men. Whereas the majority of the research on radical right voting has taken for granted that women and men behave similarly, it shows that the limited available research does indicate some gender differences in the explanations for supporting a radical right party. The final section outlines some ideas for further research and the challenges that lie ahead for scholarship on gender and the radical right.

Keywords: radical right, right-wing parties, gender bias, gender gap, voting behavior, radical right voting, underrepresentation

Hilde Coffé

Hilde Coffé is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests focus on political representation, public opinion, and political behavior, including radical right voting. She has written numerous articles that have been published in leading political science and sociology journals, such as Electoral Studies, Party Politics, Political Studies, British Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, Comparative European Politics, and Acta Politica. She has also been a visiting fellow and given presentations at several institutions, including the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Irvine, and Santa Barbara; the University of Nebraska, Lincoln; the University of Manchester; the University of Sussex; and the University of Sydney.

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