Core Ideological Continuity or Discontinuity?: A Comparison of so-called Contemporary 'Old' and 'New' Far Right Political Parties

The old-new typology separates far right political parties emanating from or associated with the inter-war and contemporary periods into ideologically distinct categories of old and new or marginalized and mainstream. However, with the historical literature on the inter-war far right suggesting a rejection or reassessment of the old-new typology concerning populism, liberal democracy, biological racism, anti-Semitism, and liberal economics, a proposed comparative analysis of the ideology of the contemporary old and new far right is necessary to investigate whether constituent parties embrace different components of ideology derived from alternative heritages, or share a similar core ideology and heritage and differ concerning the level of extremeness. A qualitative analysis of recent far right party documents from Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland, countries with an ‘old’ far right party and more and less extreme ‘new’ far right , will assess core, adjacent, and peripheral components of ideology.