Jens Rydgren
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Swedish sociologist and academic, expert on far right parties
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Jens Rydgren's Degrees
- PhD Sociology Stockholm University
- Masters Sociology Stockholm University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jens Rydgren is a Swedish writer, political commentator and a professor of sociology, at Stockholm University. Specialising in research of political sociology, for many years he has studied populist right-wing parties. In 2002 he defended his thesis Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization: The Case of the French National Front in a debate with Sidney Tarrow of Cornell University. He has appeared as an expert on right wing populist parties, including the Sweden Democrats, in various news media.
Jens Rydgren's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Sociology of the Radical Right (2007) (630)
- Is extreme right-wing populism contagious? Explaining the emergence of a new party family (2005) (537)
- Immigration sceptics, xenophobes or racists? Radical right-wing voting in six West European countries (2008) (490)
- Explaining the Emergence of Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties: The Case of Denmark (2004) (302)
- Radical Right Populism in Sweden: Still a Failure, But for How Long? (2002) (195)
- Meso-level Reasons for Racism and Xenophobia (2003) (191)
- Kurdish Diasporas: A Comparative Study of Kurdish Refugee Communities (2001) (186)
- Class politics and the radical right (2012) (182)
- Mechanisms of exclusion: ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labour market (2004) (176)
- Radical right-wing parties in Europe: What’s populism got to do with it? (2017) (171)
- Contextual explanations of radical right-wing support in Sweden: socioeconomic marginalization, group threat, and the halo effect (2013) (148)
- Movements of exclusion : radical right-wing populism in the Western world (2005) (140)
- The Populist Challenge: Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization in France (2003) (104)
- Voting for the Radical Right in Swedish Municipalities: Social Marginality and Ethnic Competition? (2011) (103)
- From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism: Radical Right-wing Populism in Sweden (2006) (98)
- The Logic of Xenophobia (2004) (92)
- Radical Right-wing Populism in Denmark and Sweden: Explaining Party System Change and Stability (2010) (89)
- The radical right and the end of Swedish exceptionalism (2019) (84)
- Frames of nostalgia and belonging: the resurgence of ethno-nationalism in Sweden (2018) (65)
- The Power of the Past: A Contribution to a Cognitive Sociology of Ethnic Conflict* (2007) (64)
- Interethnic Friendship, Trust, and Tolerance: Findings from Two North Iraqi Cities1 (2013) (54)
- Social capital, friendship networks, and youth unemployment. (2017) (47)
- Social Isolation? Social Capital and Radical Right-wing Voting in Western Europe (2009) (47)
- A legacy of ‘uncivicness’? Social capital and radical right-wing populist voting in Eastern Europe (2011) (46)
- Friendship networks and psychological well-being from late adolescence to young adulthood: a gender-specific structural equation modeling approach (2016) (43)
- Friendship network characteristics and psychological well-being in late adolescence: Exploring differences by gender and gender composition (2014) (41)
- Peer clustering of exercise and eating behaviours among young adults in Sweden: a cross-sectional study of egocentric network data (2013) (36)
- The effects of specific occupations in position generator measures of social capital (2015) (32)
- Interethnic relations in Northern Iraq (2011) (32)
- Women in power (2013) (30)
- IS EXTREME RIGHT-WING POPULISM CONTAGIOUS ? (2004) (29)
- Holland and Pim Fortuyn: a deviant case or the beginning of something new? (2004) (27)
- Holland and Pim Fortuyn: a deviant case or the beginning of something new? (2004) (27)
- Introduction : Class Politics and the Radical Right (2012) (25)
- Climate Change Denial among Radical Right-Wing Supporters (2020) (24)
- The Sweden Democrats and the ethno-nationalist rhetoric of decay and betrayal (2017) (23)
- France: The Front National, Ethnonationalism and Populism (2008) (22)
- Neighborhood and Friendship Composition in Adolescence (2012) (22)
- Radical right‐wing voters from right and left: Comparing Sweden Democrat voters who previously voted for the Conservative Party or the Social Democratic Party (2019) (19)
- The Radical Right (2018) (18)
- Analytical Sociology: Bringing Culture and Identity Back In (2014) (16)
- Social Network Characteristics and Daily Smoking among Young Adults in Sweden (2013) (15)
- The intersection of class origin and immigration background in structuring social capital: the role of transnational ties. (2018) (14)
- Right- wing populist parties and the working- class vote: what have you done for us lately? HANS - GEORG BETz AND SUSI MERET (2012) (13)
- Faith or Social Foci? : Happiness, Religion, and Social Networks in Sweden (2014) (12)
- Are They Hunkering Down? Revisiting the Relationship between Exposure to Ethnic Diversity, Intergroup Contact, and Group Trust (2017) (11)
- How Party Organization Matter: Understanding the Ups and Downs of Radical Right-wing Populism in Sweden (2009) (10)
- WOMEN IN POWER: SEX DIFFERENCES IN SWEDISH LOCAL ELITE NETWORKS (2011) (10)
- Terrorism, Belief Formation, and Residential Integration (2016) (10)
- Political protest and ethno-nationalist mobilization : the case of the French Front National (2002) (10)
- Bridging Different Worlds? (2005) (9)
- The Influence of Social Network Characteristics on Peer Clustering in Smoking: A Two-Wave Panel Study of 19- and 23-Year-Old Swedes (2016) (9)
- Social Mechanisms in Empirical Sociology (2016) (8)
- Sweden: The Scandinavian Exception (2008) (8)
- Social Marginalization, Ethnic Threat, and Radical Right-wing Support in Sweden: A Multilevel Analysis (2021) (8)
- Sociological insights of great thinkers : sociology through literature, philosophy, and science (2011) (8)
- In or out of proportion? Labour and social democratic parties’ responses to the radical right TIM BALE , DAN HOUGH , AND STIJN vAN KESSEL (2012) (7)
- Introduction: comparing and reconceptualising the (populist) radical right (2019) (6)
- Charles Peirce and the Sociology of Thinking (2010) (6)
- Social Distance, Immigrant Integration, and Welfare Chauvinism in Sweden (2017) (5)
- Friendship trust and psychological well-being from late adolescence to early adulthood: A structural equation modelling approach (2017) (5)
- Access to occupational networks and ethnic variation of depressive symptoms in young adults in Sweden. (2017) (5)
- Shared beliefs about the past : toward a cognitive sociology of intersubjective memory (2009) (5)
- Psychological Well-Being and Brokerage in Friendship Networks of Young Swedes (2015) (5)
- The acculturation in Sweden of adolescents of Iranian and Yugoslavian origin (2018) (5)
- The Battle Over Working-Class Voters (5)
- Integration of the Swedish Local Elite: The Role of Professional and Private Networks (2015) (5)
- Politicisation of the Eurozone crisis in Finland: adaptation toward the radical right? (2018) (4)
- Xenophobia among radical and mainstream rightwing party voters: Prevalence, correlates, and effects on voter mobility (2019) (4)
- SHARED BELIEFS ABOUT THE PAST : A COGNITIVE SOCIOLOGY OF INTERSUBJECTIVE MEMORY (2008) (4)
- Contextual explanations of radical right-wing party support in Sweden: a multilevel analysis (2020) (4)
- Divided by memories? Beliefs about the past, Ethnic boundaries, and trust in northern Iraq (2017) (4)
- Personal networks and crime victimization among Swedish youth (2018) (3)
- The Battle Over Working-Class Voters: How Social Democracy has Responded to the Populist Radical Right in the Nordic Countries (2021) (3)
- Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers (2010) (3)
- Prevalence, correlates, and effects on voter mobility (2019) (3)
- School’s out forever? Heavy metal preferences and higher education (2019) (3)
- BELIEFS ABOUT THE PAST AND TRUST: EVIDENCE FROM NORTHERN IRAQ (2016) (3)
- Triadic Closure in Core Networks: Disentangling the Effects of Social Distance, National Origin Similarity and Shared Contexts (2016) (3)
- The radical right and the end of Swedish exceptionalism (2018) (3)
- Voting for the populist radical right in Western Europe: the role of education ELISABETH IvARSFLATEN AND RUNE STUBAGER (2012) (3)
- "In Sweden we shake hands" - but are we really (2017) (2)
- Xenophobia among radical and mainstream right-wing party voters: prevalence, correlates and influence on party support (2022) (2)
- Nationalism and the Politics of Nostalgia 1 (2022) (2)
- Social network characteristics and alcohol use by ethnic origin: An ego-based network study on peer similarity, social relationships, and co-existing drinking habits among young Swedes (2021) (1)
- The Peer Context of Dieting: The Relationship between Young Adults’ Dieting Frequency and Their Friends’ Weight-Related Characteristics (2018) (1)
- Changes in the Personal Networks of Young Immigrants in Sweden (2017) (1)
- John Dewey: the Sociology of Action (2010) (1)
- From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism (2006) (1)
- Gender, class, and radical right voting HILDE COFFé (2012) (1)
- Mobilizing the workers? Extreme right party support and campaign effects at the 2010 British general election MATTHEW J . GOODWIN AND DAvID CUTTS (2012) (0)
- Introduction: comparing and reconceptualising the (populist) radical right (2018) (0)
- Marcel Proust : On Social Status and Capital Forms (2010) (0)
- Radical right parties: their voters and their electoral competitors WOUTER vAN DER BRUG , MEINDERT FENNEMA , (2012) (0)
- Xenophobia and Radical Right-wing Populism : A Vicious Circle (2011) (0)
- Fashioning Japanese Subcultures (2013) (0)
- 3.2-O2 Lacking occupational network contacts : an explanation for the ethnic variation of depressive symptoms in young adults in Sweden (2018) (0)
- Who supports non-traditional gender roles ? (2015) (0)
- Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. By Cas Mudde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii+385. $95.00 (cloth); $34.99 (paper). (2009) (0)
- Psychological Well-Being and Brokerage in Friendship Networks of Young Swedes (2014) (0)
- Comparing and reconceptualising the (populist) radical right (2018) (0)
- Friendship networks and psychological well-being from late adolescence to young adulthood: a gender-specific structural equation modeling approach (2016) (0)
- Referees Acta Politica 2011 (2012) (0)
- The Front National and Populism in France (2007) (0)
- The Populist Challenge (2003) (0)
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