Jens Rydgren

I am Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University. My main areas of research are political sociology and ethnic relations. At Stockholm University I am currently directing a research projects where we aim to explain the growing electoral support of radical right-wing parties among working-class voters. 

For further information, please visit my personal homepage www.jensrydgren.se

Three recently published works

• Salo, S. and Rydgren, J. 2021. The Battle over Working Class Voters: How Social Democracy has Responded to the Populist Radical Right in the Nordic Countries. London: Routledge.
• Jylhä, K., Rydgren, J. and Strimling, P. 2022. "Xenophobia among Radical and Mainstream Right-wing Party Voters: Prevalence, Correlates, and Influence on Party Support." Ethnic and Racial Studies 45(16): 261-286.
• Rydgren, J. and van der Meiden, S. 2019. “The Radical Right and the End of Swedish Exceptionalism.” European Political Science 18(3): 439-455.

Three frequently cited works

• Rydgren, J. ed. 2018. The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Rydgren, J. 2008. “Immigration Sceptics, Xenophobes, or Racists? Radical Right-wing Voting in Six West European Countries.” European Journal of Political Research 47:737-765.
• Rydgren, J. 2005. “Is Extreme Right-wing Populism Contagious? Explaining the Emergence of a New Party Family.” European Journal of Political Research 44: 413-437.