"Advanced democracies have seen the emergence of a new cleavage between universalism and particularism. While alignments to the new left and the far right – at the extremes of the cleavage – are highly segmented, the fiercest competition occurs within ideological fields. In order to determine to what extent the ‘right field' either remains fragmented or is merging into a homogenous ideological block, this article studies the determinants of consideration sets and vote choice within the right field across age groups with original sur-vey data from France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK. It is found that while the choice between the mainstream and the far right continues to be structured along the universalism-particularism cleavage, younger generations in particular consider both far and mainstream right parties viable options, even if they hold market-liberal attitudes or group identities associated with the mainstream right among older voters. These findings show an eroding seg-mentation within the right field."

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