Extreme right parties in Western Europe

Extreme right parties in Western Europe / Piero Iganzi.

This text explores the extreme right in order to assess its ideological meaning and political expression. Beginning with a discussion of the usefulness of the left-right distinction, it deals with the varied significance of the term 'right' and analyses the right's post-war evolution...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ignazi, Piero
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series:Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Since 1989
Political parties > Europe.
Conservatism > Europe.
Right-wing extremists > Europe.
Political parties > Europe, Western.
Conservatism > Europe, Western.
Right-wing extremists > Europe, Western.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Parties.
Conservatism
Political parties
Politics and government
Right-wing extremists
Extremisme.
Rechts (politiek)
Politieke partijen.
Europe > Politics and government > 1989-
Europe, Western > Politics and government > 1989-
Western Europe
Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • Meanings and varieties of the right
  • From ideologies to parties
  • Italy: the faded Beacon and the populist surge
  • Germany: the spectre that never materialized
  • France: prototype of the new extreme right
  • Austria: away from liberalism
  • Belgium: right extremism and ethnic nationalism
  • Scandinavia: the progress parties between protest and extremism
  • The Netherlands: a fleeting extreme right
  • Great Britain: a case of failure
  • The Mediterranean countries: too late for nostalgia, too early for post-material protest
  • Extreme right parties: the by-product of a "silent counter-revolution"?

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