West European Politics in the Age of Globalization

Informationen zum Autor Hanspeter Kriesi is Professor for Comparative Politics in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Edgar Grande is Professor for Comparative Politics in the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the University of Munich. Romain Lachat is a visiting scholar at the Department of Politics of New York University. Martin Dolezal is a researcher in the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the University of Munich. Simon Bornscher is a researcher in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Timotheos Frey is a researcher in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Klappentext Examines the new configuration of political power in Western Europe, as the radical right mobilises globalisation's losers. Zusammenfassung Over the past three decades globalisation and denationalisation have created a division between 'winners' and 'losers' in Western Europe. This study examines the resulting transformation of the party systems in six countries and demonstrates how globalisation's losers are becoming increasingly motivated and mobilised by parties of the new populist right. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Theory and Methods: 1. Globalization and its impact on national spaces of competition; 2. Contexts of party mobilization; 3. The design of the study: the distinguishing characteristics of our approach; Part II. Country Studies: 4. France: the model case of party system transformation; 5. Austria: transformation driven by an established party; 6. Switzerland: another case of transformation driven by an established party; 7. The Netherlands: a challenge that was slow in coming; 8. The United Kingdom: moving parties in a stable configuration; 9. Germany: the dog that didn't bark; Part III. Comparative Analyses: 10. Demand side: dealignment and realignment of the structural political potentials; 11. Supply side: the positioning of the political parties in a restructuring space; 12. The electoral consequences of the integration-demarcation cleavage; 13. Globalizing West European politics: the change of cleavage structures, parties and party systems in comparative perspective; Appendix A. Technical appendix; Appendix B. Detailed statistical results....

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• Authors: Simon (Universitat Zurich) Bornschier, Bornschier Simon, Martin (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen) Dolezal, Dolezal Martin, Timotheos (Universitat Zurich) Frey, Frey Timotheos, Edgar Grande, Edgar (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen) Grande, Grande Edgar, Hanspeter Kriesi, Hanspeter (Universitat Zurich) Kriesi, Hanspeter (Universitat Zurich) Grande Kriesi, Hanspeter Grande Kriesi, Kriesi Hanspeter, Romain Lachat, Romain (New York University) Lachat, Lachat Romain
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2008
• EAN: 9780521895576
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89557-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Politics & government, Politics and government, Western Europe, Western Continental Europe