Vox populismus: a populist radical right attitude among the public?

In the last two decades, populist radical right ( PRR ) parties have been electorally very successful in W estern E urope. Various scholars have argued that these parties share an ideological core that consists of a specific form of nationalism (nativism), in combination with two other attitudes (authoritarianism and populism). The aim of this research note is to assess whether this ideological core also exists as a consistent attitude among citizens. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the attitudes of Dutch citizens indicate that we can indeed speak of a consistent PRR attitude among the public. I also show that this attitude is strongly related to the probability of voting for the PRR F reedom P arty ( P artij voor de V rijheid ) of G eert W ilders.