Drawing on a mixed research methodology with a strong qualitative character, this book traces the political impact of the British National Party in the UK, the Front National in France and the Lega Nord in Italy by exploring their contagion effects on immigration politics and policy in particular over the patterns of inter-party competition, public behaviour and policy developments.

This book suggests that extreme right party impact on immigration politics and policy is an outcome of the extreme right parties electoral threats to established parties alongside the agency of mainstream...