Institutionalisation (and De-Institutionalisation) of Right-Wing Protest Parties

This is a fascinating study of how parties form, institutionalise and potentially de-institutionalise, which focuses on two key examples of new protest parties that (forming in the 1970s) were (rather unfortunately) trailblazers for others to follow. -- David Farrell, University College Dublin

In a period when traditional political parties face their worst crisis ever and entrepreneurial protest parties, both on the right (e.g. UKIP, ANEL) and on the left (e.g. Podemos, M5S), spring up like mushrooms across Europe, this excellent study on the causes of party de-institutionalization could have not been more timely. Conceptually sophisticated and methodologically sound, this book has everything to become a classic. -- Fernando Casal Bertoa, University of Nottingham

An impressive example of conceptual advancement applied to interesting cases. The authors use a detailed study of the Danish and Norwegian Progress Parties to shed new light on party institutionalization and party failure. They show that leadership matters when we want to understand why some parties succeed while others vanish. -- Thomas Poguntke, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Party institutionalization continues to capture the research curiosity of party scholars but this excellent book pushes the boundaries further by also examining the much less-studied twin concept of deinstitutionalization. This book is a careful and methodical study of these twin concepts and appropriately applied to shed light on the development of the Progress Parties of Norway and Denmark. -- Alex Tan, University of Canterbury

Robert Harmel is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA.