The Extreme Right in Western Europe: Success or Failure?
Author(s): Elisabeth Carter (Author)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 28 July 2005
Edition: Illustrated
Language: English
Print length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0719070481
ISBN-13: 9780719070488
Book Description
Parties of the extreme Right have experienced a dramatic rise in electoral support in many countries in Western Europe over the last two and a half decades. This phenomenon has been far from uniform, however, and the considerable attention that the more successful Right-wing extremist parties have received has sometimes obscured the fact that these parties have not recorded high electoral results in all West European democracies. Furthermore, their electoral scores have also varied over time, with the same party recording low electoral scores in one election but securing high electoral scores in another.
This book examines the reasons behind the variation in the electoral fortunes of the West European parties of the extreme Right in the period since the late 1970s. It proposes a number of different explanations as to why certain parties of the extreme Right have performed better than others at the polls and it investigates each of these different explanations systematically and in depth.
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Editorial Reviews
Review
Carter makes an interesting and bold attempt to add to this debate by coming up with a new typology of extreme right parties based on painstaking country-by-country research and a critical review of the existing literature. She also offers useful and informed commentary on the discussion surrounding the definition of the radical right. –Political Studies Review (January 2008)
From the Back Cover
Parties of the extreme Right have experienced a dramatic rise in electoral support in many countries in Western Europe over the last two and a half decades. This phenomenon has been far from uniform, however, and the considerable attention that the more successful Right-wing extremist parties have received has sometimes obscured the fact that these parties have not recorded high electoral results in all West European democracies. Furthermore, their electoral scores have also varied over time, with the same party recording low electoral scores in one election but securing high electoral scores in another.
This book examines the reasons behind the variation in the electoral fortunes of the West European parties of the extreme Right in the period since the late 1970s. It proposes a number of different explanations as to why certain parties of the extreme Right have performed better than others at the polls and it investigates each of these different explanations systematically and in depth.
About the Author
Elisabeth Carter is Lecturer in the School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at the University of Keele.
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