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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465621603321

Autore

Carter Elisabeth L

Titolo

The extreme right in Western Europe [[electronic resource] ] : success or failure? / / Elisabeth Carter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005

ISBN

1-78170-196-2

1-84779-442-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

324.24038

Soggetti

Political parties - Europe, Western

Conservatism - Europe, Western

Fascism - Europe, Western

Right-wing extremists - Europe, Western

Electronic books.

Europe, Western Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations: right-wing extremist parties; 1. The varying electoral fortunes of the West European parties of the extreme right; 2. Party ideology; 3. Party organization and leadership; 4. Party competition; 5. The institutional environment; 6. Accounting for varying electoral fortunes; Appendix A The ideological positions of West European political parties; Appendix B The political space in the different countries of Western Europe; Appendix C The disproportionality of elections,1979-2003; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Parties of the extreme Right have experienced a dramatic rise in electoral support in many countries in Western Europe over the last two and a half decades. This phenomenon has been far from uniform, however, and the considerable attention that the more successful Right-wing extremist parties have received has sometimes obscured the fact that these parties have not recorded high electoral results in all West European democracies. Furthermore, their electoral scores have



also varied over time, with the same party recording low electoral scores in one election but securing high electoral scores