A Matter of Decency?

The Progress Party has marked itself as a party in opposition to the dominant immigration- and integration policies in Norway, and has to a significant degree drawn popular support for its anti-immigration views. Adjectives such as anti-immigration, rightwing, populist, new right are often used to describe the party, and can certainly provide the first few indications of what kind of political party this is.

But if we look at the party political landscape of Norway and the position of the Progress Party within this, the question is not only what the Progress Party is, but what they are made into by their political opponents. This paper is about the Progress Party and what they say, but also about their opponents, what they say about the party and how they construct their enemy.