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Cutting-edge comparative analysis of the challenges posed by the populist radical right to Western Europe's Conservative, Liberal and Christian Democratic parties.
List of contents
Preface; 1. The mainstream right in western europe: caught between the silent and silent counter-revolutions Tim Bale and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser; 2. The demand side: profiling the electorate of the mainstream right in western europe since the 2000s Eelco Harteveld; 3. The supply side: mainstream right party policy positions in a changing political space Tarik Abou-Chadi and Werner Krause; 4. Austria: tracing the Christian democrats' adaptation to the silent counter-revolution Reinhard Heinisch and Annika Werner; 5. France: party system change and the demise of the post-gaullist right Jocelyn Evans and Gilles Ivaldi; 6. Germany: how the Christian democrats manage to adapt to the silent counter-revolution Sarah E. Wiliarty; 7. Italy: the Italian mainstream right and its Allies, 1994-2018 Pietro Castelli Gattinara and Caterina Froio; 8. The Netherlands: how the mainstream right normalised the silent counter-revolution Stijn van Kessel; 9. Spain: the development and decline of the popular party Sonia Alonso and Bonnie N. Field; 10. Sweden: the difficult adaptation of the moderates to the silent counter-revolution Anders Ravik Jupskås; 11. The UK: the conservatives and their competitors in the post-thatcher era Richard Hayton; 12. The mainstream right in western europe in the 21st century Tim Bale and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser; References; Index.
About the author
Tim Bale is an expert on European politics and political parties. He won the UK Political Studies Association's W.J.M. Mackenzie prize for his book The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron (2010) and is a frequent contributor to broadcast, print and social media in both Britain and beyond.Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser is an expert on populism, who has held visiting appointments at Nuffield College, Sciences Po, the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) and Uppsala University. He is the co-author of the book Populism. A Very Short Introduction (with Cas Mudde, 2017) which has been translated into more than ten languages.
Summary
Riding the Populist Wave is for anyone interested in how mainstream right parties, which continue to play a crucial role in the democratic politics and governance of so many Western European countries, are fighting to maintain their footing in societies riven by values conflicts and the rise of the populist radical right.
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'This ground-breaking book represents a massive development in the study of European parties. The focus on the mainstream right has been limited and this contribution from Bale and Rovria Kaltwasser not only plugs that gap but also sets the agenda for studying and it relationship with the populist wave. The volume offers conceptual development, rigorous comparative work and a vital source on key country cases.' Paul Taggart, University of Sussex
