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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786074403321

Titolo

Class politics and the radical right / / edited by Jens Rydgren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-91976-1

0-203-07954-X

1-136-16062-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in extremism and democracy ; ; 16

Altri autori (Persone)

RydgrenJens

Disciplina

320.53094

Soggetti

Radicalism - Europe

Social classes - Political aspects - Europe

Political participation - Europe

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

Cover; Class Politics and the Radical Right; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; About the authors; Introduction: Class politics and the radical right; 1 The populist right, the working class, and the changing face of class politics; 2 The class basis of the cleavage between the New Left and the radical right: An analysis for Austria, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland; 3 Radical right parties: Their voters and their electoral competitors; 4 Working-class parties 2.0?: Competition between centre-left and extreme right parties

5 In or out of proportion?: Labour and social democratic parties' responses to the radical right6 Right-wing populist parties and the working-class vote: What have you done for us lately?; 7 Voting for the populist radical right in Western Europe: The role of education; 8 Gender, class, and radical right voting; 9 The class basis of extreme right voting in France: Generational replacement and the rise of new cultural issues (1984-2007); 10 Another kind of class voting: The working-class sympathy for Sweden Democrats

11 Mobilizing the workers?: Extreme right party support and campaign effects at the 2010 British general election12 The radical right in Central and Eastern Europe: Class politics in classless societies?; 13 Social class and the radical right: Conceptualizing political preference



formation and partisan choice; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

One of the most significant events in European politics the past two decades is the emergence of radical right-wing parties, mobilizing against immigration and multiethnic societies. Such parties have established themselves in a large number of countries, often with voter shares exceeding ten and sometimes even twenty percent. Many of these parties exert a real influence on the policy within respective country.The emergence of the recent wave of radical right-wing party politics has generated a large and growing literature, spanning a variety of dimensions-such as ideology, voting, a