Are they different? A comparative study of European populist party members

Party membership is in decline across the established democracies, but populist parties appear to be reversing this trend. The expansion of parties’ base raises question whether these are fulfilling their role as actors who serve a “corrective democracy” by mobilizing socially and politically marginalized become active. Using large comparative datasets from European Social Survey World Values Survey, we examine characteristics party members terms socio-demographic background political attitudes. We show that, with exceptions income levels church attendance, non-populist look very much alike hold similar These findings imply that disaffected remains challenge, even for actors.