The great realignment : why the new right is here to stay / Stephen Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Stephen, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right and left (Political science).

Populism.

Culture conflict--Political aspects.

Culture conflict.

Ethnicity--Political aspects.

Ethnicity.

Party affiliation.

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

Physical Description:

v, 210 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; Hoboken : Polity Press, 2026.

Summary:

The re-election of Donald Trump has illustrated in spectacular fashion the extent to which politics all over the world is in a state of continual flux. Old political configurations and parties are under unprecedented strain, with new forces, particularly on the hard right, challenging the status quo everywhere. Rejecting stale analyses based on moralistic panics about 'populism' or social media, political commentator Steve Davies shows how we are going through a deep-seated process of realignment rooted in underlying structural trends. We are transitioning, he argues, from an era where the key political division was over the economic structure of society to one where the primary division is between a vision rooted in national identity and sovereignty, and an essentially post-national cosmopolitanism. This change upends the ideological and electoral alliances that have structured our political systems for decades.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781509567461

1509567461

OCLC:

1535296842