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Research project

Explaining support for the radical right

Project overview

This research project investigates far-right support, particularly focusing on Spain's far-right party, VOX. Questions that the project asks:

1. Who votes for the far-right in Spain?
2. What explains changing electoral success of the far-right in Spain?
3. How should Spanish mainstream parties respond to the rise of the far-right?

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • experimental methods
  • political sociology
  • LGBTQ+ politics
Connect with Stuart

Email: S.Turnbull-Dugarte@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Far right normalization & centrifugal affect. Evidence from the dating market
Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte & Alberto López Ortega, 2025, Journal of Politics
DOI: 10.1086/736698
Type: article
Rally ’round the barrack: far-right support and the military
Francisco Villamil, Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte & José Rama, 2024, The Journal of Politics, 86(4), 1524-1540
DOI: 10.1086/727598
Type: article
Public support for the cordon sanitaire: descriptive evidence from Spain
Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte, 2024, Party Politics
DOI: 10.1177/13540688241246141
Type: article
Descomponiendo a la derecha radical europea; el perfil de sus votantes
José Rama, Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte & Fran Villamil, 2022
Type: bookChapter
When the US far-right sneezes, the European far-right catches a cold. Quasi-experimental evidence of electoral contagion from Spain
Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte & José Rama, 2022, Electoral Studies, 76
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102443
Type: article
Surviving but not thriving: VOX and Spain in times of Covid-19
Lisa Zanotti & Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte, 2022, Government and Opposition
DOI: 10.1017/gov.2022.7
Type: article
VOX: The Rise of the Spanish Populist Radical Right
José Rama, Lisa Zanotti, Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte & Andrés Santana, 2021
DOI: 10.4324/9781003049227
Type: book