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This book explores the minds and lives of regular people to explain why far right parties are increasingly popular in democracies. While other titles focus on macro trends, like immigration and globalization, this book investigates people's day-to-day experiences and institutional contexts that connect their local ties to their electoral decisions.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Theorizing localism and radical right support; 3. Localism and radical right support in Europe; 4. Who are the localists that support the radical right?; 5. Neighborly ties, local autonomy, and SVP support in Switzerland; 6. Local autonomy shifts, local cohesion, and Le Pen support in France; 7. Local political salience and radical right party success in OECD countries; 8. Conclusion.
About the author
Jennifer Fitzgerald is co-author of Partisan Families (Cambridge, 2007), awarded the International Society of Political Psychology's Alexander George Book Award for best book in political psychology. Her other accolades include a Fulbright Award to conduct research in France, the University of Chicago's Morton Kaplan Prize, and repeated teaching awards at the University of Colorado Boulder where she is Associate Professor of Political Science. Her research has been published in the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Behavior, World Politics, Electoral Studies and International Migration Review, among others.
Summary
This book explores the minds and lives of regular people to explain why far right parties are increasingly popular in democracies. While other titles focus on macro trends, like immigration and globalization, this book investigates people's day-to-day experiences and institutional contexts that connect their local ties to their electoral decisions.
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'While country specialists have always been aware of the huge regional differences in support for the radical right, the comparative study of radical Right-Wing mobilization has for a long time focused almost exclusively on the level of the nation state. This is changing rapidly: the question of how local conditions and - perhaps more importantly - beliefs about local conditions and communities facilitate or hinder mobilization by the radical right is becoming one of the most important issue in this field of research. Professor Fitzgerald has written the first book-length treatise on this issue. She provides a concise theoretical framework and ample empirical evidence. Without doubt, her book will shape the development of the subfield.' Kai Arzheimer, University of Mainz, Germany
