Anders Widfeldt obtained his doctoral degree from Goteborg University (Sweden) in 1997. Since 1996 he has been employed as a lecturer in Politics at the University of Aberdeen. His research interests include political parties and party organisations, and the far/radical/extreme right in Western Europe. He has been responsible for the Political Data Yearbook entries on Sweden from the beginning in 1992; until 1999 with Jon Pierre as co-author.