The Populist Radical Right: A Reader

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Dedication......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction to the populist radical right......Page 20
PART I Ideology and issues......Page 30
1 Interregnum or endgame? The radical right in the ‘post-fascist’ era......Page 34
2 Party ideology......Page 47
3 Against the current—stemming the tide: the nostalgic ideology of the contemporary radical populist right......Page 87
4 A new winning formula? The programmatic appeal of the radical right......Page 102
5 The European extreme-right and Islam: new directions?......Page 122
6 European integration and the radical right: three patterns of opposition......Page 143
PART II Parties, organizations and subcultures......Page 158
7 Right-wing extremism in post-war Europe......Page 162
8 New populist parties in Western Europe......Page 178
9 Modern European democracy and its enemies: the threat of the extreme right......Page 191
10 Racist extremism in Central and Eastern Europe......Page 205
11 Conservative and right-wing movements......Page 219
PART III Leaders, members and voters......Page 238
12 The rebirth of right-wing charisma? The cases of Jean-Marie Le Pen and Vladimir Zhirinovsky......Page 242
13 Extreme right activists: recruitment and experiences......Page 257
14 Becoming a racist: women in contemporary Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups......Page 277
15 Electoral sociology – who votes for the Extreme Right and why – and when?......Page 296
16 The radical right gender gap......Page 309
PART IV Causes......Page 328
17 The silent counter-revolution: hypotheses on the emergence of extreme right-wing parties in Europe......Page 332
18 The new politics of resentment: radical right-wing populist parties in Western Europe......Page 357
19 The contemporary radical right: an interpretative and explanatory framework......Page 371
20 The radical right in postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe: comparative observations and interpretations......Page 405
21 Ten theories of the extreme right......Page 423
22 The populist radical right: a pathological normalcy......Page 443
PART V Consequences......Page 458
23 The radical right in public office: agenda-setting and policy effects......Page 462
24 The extreme-right and immigration policy-making: measuring direct and indirect effects......Page 477
25 Contagious parties: anti-immigration parties and their impact on other parties’ immigration stances in contemporary Western Europe......Page 493
26 Comparing radical right parties in government: immigration and integration policies in nine countries (1996–2010)......Page 511
27 Populism and liberal democracy: populists in government in Austria, Italy, Poland and Switzerland......Page 526
28 The 2012 Stein Rokkan Lecture: Three decades of populist radical right parties in Western Europe: so what?......Page 546
PART VI Responses......Page 560
29 Patterns of response to the extreme right in Western Europe......Page 562
30 Between adaptation, differentiation and distinction: extreme right-wing parties within democratic political systems......Page 577
31 Reacting to the radical right: lessons from Germany and Austria......Page 594
32 New alliances: why mainstream parties govern with radical right-wing populist parties......Page 609
Conclusion: studying populist radical right parties and politics in the twenty-first century......Page 628
Index......Page 640