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The international attention received by Austria in recent years has mainly been due to the spectacular rise of the Freedom Party (FPÖ), which began in 1986, when Jörg Haider was elected party leader.1 A party which had virtually been written off in the early 1980s, it became the second strongest party in terms of votes in 1999 (having won 415 votes more than the People’s Party, ÖVP). In terms of seats won, it is now on equal terms with the ÖVP, and even ‘within striking distance’ of the Social Democrats (SPÖ) (Table 9.1).
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Müller, W.C. (2002). Evil or the ‘Engine of Democracy’?Populism and Party Competition in Austria. In: Mény, Y., Surel, Y. (eds) Democracies and the Populist Challenge. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403920072_9
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