Pippa Norris

Radical Right

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780521613859
• ISBN-10: 052161385X
• Artikelnr.: 15103596

Autorenporträt

Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her work compares elections and public opinion, gender politics, and political communications. Companion volumes by this author, also published by Cambridge University Press, include A Virtuous Circle (2000), Digital Divide (2001), Democratic Phoenix (2002), and Rising Tide (2003), Electoral Engineering (2004) and Sacred and Secular (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Understanding the Radical Right: 1. Understanding the rise of the radical right; 2. Classifying the radical right; 3. Comparing parties; Part II. The Regulated Marketplace: 4. Ballot access and campaign finance; 5. Electoral systems; Part III. Electoral Demand: 6. The 'new cleavage' thesis: the social basis of support; 7. 'None of the above': the politics of resentment; 8. 'Us and them': immigration, multiculturalism, and xenophobia; Part IV. Party Supply: 9. Location, location, location: party competition; 10. Consolidating party organizations; Part V. Consequences: 11. Assessing the rise of the radical right and its consequences.

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Part I. Understanding the Radical Right: 1. Understanding the rise of the radical right
2. Classifying the radical right
3. Comparing parties
Part II. The Regulated Marketplace: 4. Ballot access and campaign finance
5. Electoral systems
Part III. Electoral Demand: 6. The 'new cleavage' thesis: the social basis of support
7. 'None of the above': the politics of resentment
8. 'Us and them': immigration, multiculturalism, and xenophobia
Part IV. Party Supply: 9. Location, location, location: party competition
10. Consolidating party organizations
Part V. Consequences: 11. Assessing the rise of the radical right and its consequences.

Rezensionen

"Norris has written a masterful and comprehensive account of the rise of radical right voting in liberal democracies. She offers a dispassionate, scientific, and nuanced treatment of the perplexing surge of xenophobic politics in a wide range of societies that are otherwise stable and affluent. Anyone who wants to understand these developments must read this book." James Hollifield, Southern Methodist University