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Cleavage politics and the populist right : the new cultural conflict in Western Europe / Simon Bornschier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bornschier, Simon.
- Series:
- Social logic of politics.
- The social logic of politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political parties--Europe, Western.
- Political parties.
- Right-wing extremists--Europe, Western.
- Right-wing extremists.
- Populism--Europe, Western.
- Populism.
- Culture conflict--Europe, Western.
- Culture conflict.
- Europe, Western--Politics and government.
- Europe, Western.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Over the last two decades, right-wing populist parties in Western Europe have gained sizable vote shares and power, much to the fascination and consternation of political observers. Meshing traditionalism and communitarian ideals, right-wing populist parties have come to represent a polar normative ideal to the New Left in Western Europe. In his dynamic study Cleavage Politics and the Populist Right, Simon Bornschier applies a cultural as well as political dimension to analyze the parties of both the right and left in six countries. He develops a theory that integrates the role
- Contents:
- A dynamic perspective on cleavages and the populist right
- Putting right-wing populist parties in context
- The new cultural conflict and the populist right in Western Europe
- The extreme-right-wing populist party family
- New political divides and historical cleavages
- From structure to culture and back : the perpetuation and transformation of historical cleavages
- Research design and methods
- The new cultural cleavage and the populist right in France, Switzerland, and Germany
- France : the reshaping of cultural conflicts and the rise of the Front National
- Switzerland : the transformation of the Swiss People's Party
- Germany : a constricted ideological space and the failure of the extreme right
- The redefinition of cultural conflicts and the transformation of Western European party systems.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439901946
- 1439901945
- OCLC:
- 646066502
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