Inside the Radical Right

ISBN-13: 9780521896245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 290 str.

David Art

Opis

What explains the cross-national variation in the radical right's electoral success over the last several decades? Challenging existing structural and institutional accounts, this book analyzes the dynamics of party building and explores the attitudes, skills, and experiences of radical right activists in eleven different countries. Based on extensive field research and an original data set of radical right candidates for office, David Art links the quality of radical right activists to broader patterns of success and failure. He demonstrates how a combination of historical legacies and incentive structures produced activists who helped party building in some cases, and doomed it in others. In an age of rising electoral volatility and the fading of traditional political cleavages, Inside the Radical Right makes a strong case for the importance of party leaders and activists as masters of their own fate.

Recenzje

'In this book, David Art takes on the challenge of explaining the development of radical right parties in eleven countries in Western Europe … this is a well-written book that goes far in examining an important aspect of political party development through a set of parties that once were thought to be only a 'flash in the pan' but have persisted in a way that has often defied the expectations of political analysts across Europe. This book adds another piece to the puzzle of understanding what is clearly a complicated set of processes, existing both in the national context and in response to global challenges that influence voters in their search for a party that will address their interests.' Terri E. Givens, Culture and Society

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Activists and party development; 3. Parties of poor souls; 4. Nationalist subcultures; 5. Party transformation and flash parties; 6. Reforming the old right?; 7. Conclusion; Appendix A. Percentage of the vote for radical right parties in national parliamentary elections; Appendix B. Coding procedure for radical right party lists; Appendix C. ISCO codes for radical right candidates for office.