Class Politics and the Radical Right.

One of the most significant events in European politics the past two decades is the emergence of radical right-wing parties, mobilizing against immigration and multiethnic societies. Such parties have established themselves in a large number of countries, often with voter shares exceeding ten and so...

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Main Author: Rydgren, Jens
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012
Series:Extremism and Democracy.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Class Politics and the Radical Right; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; About the authors; Introduction: Class politics and the radical right; 1 The populist right, the working class, and the changing face of class politics; 2 The class basis of the cleavage between the New Left and the radical right: An analysis for Austria, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland; 3 Radical right parties: Their voters and their electoral competitors; 4 Working-class parties 2.0?: Competition between centre-left and extreme right parties
  • 5 In or out of proportion?: Labour and social democratic parties' responses to the radical right6 Right-wing populist parties and the working-class vote: What have you done for us lately?; 7 Voting for the populist radical right in Western Europe: The role of education; 8 Gender, class, and radical right voting; 9 The class basis of extreme right voting in France: Generational replacement and the rise of new cultural issues (1984-2007); 10 Another kind of class voting: The working-class sympathy for Sweden Democrats
  • 11 Mobilizing the workers?: Extreme right party support and campaign effects at the 2010 British general election12 The radical right in Central and Eastern Europe: Class politics in classless societies?; 13 Social class and the radical right: Conceptualizing political preference formation and partisan choice; References; Index