Far-Right Populist Elites and Parliamentary Consolidation

The consolidation of a given political elite recruitment model is a typical phenomenon that spans the life of a parliamentary party, with consequences both on the organizational model and the fate of the party itself. The process of parliamentary consolidation of European populist right-wing parties poses problems in this regard, given the traditionally isolated nature and "anti-system" origins of many of these parties. The paper develops an intensive comparison among three examples of populist parliamentary parties, with significantly different origins that have sufficiently consolidated within their respective parliaments: Alternative for Germany (Germany), Vox (Spain), and Brothers of Italy (Italy). Using the persistence of the formal model of selection and the characteristics of the original core élite group as the dependent variables in the analysis, this comparison will allow us to identify the factors that in one party or another have determined any deviations from the initial recruitment model.