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  * ESS: unless otherwise specified, numbers include rounds 1 to 5. Bracketed numbers indicate round 5

  Limitations

  Most of the datasets we used had small sample sizes with respect to the right-wing populist vote, so we suggest caution should be exercised when interpreting these results. Particular caution should be taken with respect to the ‘Committed radicals’ figures, since, as seen in the above table, generally the samples here are smallest.

  We also advise care when comparing the different datasets, since different questions and sampling techniques were used for the different data. We aim to restrict ourselves to indirect qualitative comparisons in this pamphlet, and suggest that any direct comparisons should be applied only to the results from the European Social Survey, which is designed for cross-country comparisons.