Close to Home: Local Ties and Voting Radical Right in Europe

ISBN-13: 9781108432672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 268 str.

Jennifer Fitzgerald

Opis

Argues that radical right voting in Europe is rooted in people's feelings of attachment to and defensiveness of their local communities.

Recenzje

'While country specialists have always been aware of the huge regional differences in support for the radical right, the comparative study of radical Right-Wing mobilization has for a long time focused almost exclusively on the level of the nation state. This is changing rapidly: the question of how local conditions and - perhaps more importantly - beliefs about local conditions and communities facilitate or hinder mobilization by the radical right is becoming one of the most important issue in this field of research. Professor Fitzgerald has written the first book-length treatise on this issue. She provides a concise theoretical framework and ample empirical evidence. Without doubt, her book will shape the development of the subfield.' Kai Arzheimer, University of Mainz, Germany

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Theorizing localism and radical right support; 3. Localism and radical right support in Europe; 4. Who are the localists that support the radical right?; 5. Neighborly ties, local autonomy, and SVP support in Switzerland; 6. Local autonomy shifts, local cohesion, and Le Pen support in France; 7. Local political salience and radical right party success in OECD countries; 8. Conclusion.