Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral MarketCambridge University Press, 2005 M08 22 - 349 pages During recent decades, radical right parties have been surging in popularity in many nations, gaining legislative seats, enjoying the legitimacy endowed by ministerial office, and striding the corridors of government power. The popularity of leaders such as Le Pen, Haider, and Fortuyn has aroused widespread popular concern and a burgeoning scholarly literature. Despite the interest, little consensus has emerged about the primary factors driving this phenomenon. The puzzle is to explain why radical right parties have advanced in a diverse array of democracies - including in Austria, Canada, Norway, France, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Israel, Romania, Russia, and Chile - while failing to make comparable gains in similar societies elsewhere, such as in Sweden, Britain, and the United States. This book, first published in 2005, expands our understanding of support for radical right parties through presenting an integrated new theory which is then tested systematically using a wealth of cross-national survey evidence covering almost forty countries. |
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... patterns of voting behavior in the mass electorate . The simple idea was that richer insights could be derived if the comparative study of electoral systems , parties , and voters could be reintegrated , rather than treating each of ...
... patterns of voting behavior in the mass electorate . The simple idea was that richer insights could be derived if the comparative study of electoral systems , parties , and voters could be reintegrated , rather than treating each of ...
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... patterns of its diverse populations . The survey covers more than twenty nations and employs the most rigorous methodologies . It is funded via the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme , with supplemen- tary funds from the ...
... patterns of its diverse populations . The survey covers more than twenty nations and employs the most rigorous methodologies . It is funded via the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme , with supplemen- tary funds from the ...
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... patterns of party compe- tition . Building on ideas of rational voters and rational parties developed nearly half a century ago , this phenomenon is understood here through the concept of a regulated political marketplace which ...
... patterns of party compe- tition . Building on ideas of rational voters and rational parties developed nearly half a century ago , this phenomenon is understood here through the concept of a regulated political marketplace which ...
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... patterns of immigration , have found only limited or mixed support in the literature . The research also remains divided in part be- cause , rather than offering systematic comparative analysis with testable generalizations , the ...
... patterns of immigration , have found only limited or mixed support in the literature . The research also remains divided in part be- cause , rather than offering systematic comparative analysis with testable generalizations , the ...
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... patterns of migration flows , and / or the expansion of long- term unemployment - which are thought to have facilitated public de- mand for these parties as an outlet for political frustrations among the losers in affluent societies ...
... patterns of migration flows , and / or the expansion of long- term unemployment - which are thought to have facilitated public de- mand for these parties as an outlet for political frustrations among the losers in affluent societies ...
Contents
Classifying the Radical Right | 35 |
Tables | 40 |
Comparing Parties | 52 |
Ballot Access and Campaign Finance | 83 |
Electoral Systems | 105 |
The Social Basis | 129 |
The Politics of Resentment | 149 |
Immigration Multiculturalism | 166 |
Party Competition | 191 |
Consolidating Party Organizations | 217 |
Assessing the Rise of the Radical Right and | 253 |
Notes | 273 |
Select Bibliography | 315 |
Index | 339 |
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Page 92 - The political parties shall participate in the forming of the political will of the people. They may be freely formed. Their internal organization must conform to democratic principles. They must publicly account for the sources of their funds.
Page 92 - Parties which, by reason of their aims or the behavior of their adherents, seek to impair or destroy the free democratic basic order or to endanger the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany shall be unconstitutional.
Page 281 - Whatever index of change is used - a measure of trends or any of several measures of fluctuations - the picture is the same: the electoral strength of most parties in Western nations since the war had changed very little from election to election, from decade to decade, or within the lifespan of a generation.