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Combining insights from comparative politics, party politics, comparative political economy, and welfare state research, the book provides novel insights into how the radical right manufactures consent for authoritarian rule.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The socio-economic transformation of the radical right
- 3: Policy preferences and impacts of radical right parties
- 4: Chauvinist and familialist insider protection in Continental Europe
- 5: Chauvinist insider in Northern Europe
- 6: Familialist protection and economic nationalism in the Visegrád region
- 7: The Trumpian exception of trade protection in the USA
- 8: Conclusions
About the author
Philip Rathgeb is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. Philip holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute (EUI) and held visiting positions at Harvard University, Lund University, University of Southern Denmark, and the EUI. His research interests are in comparative political economy and comparative politics, with a particular focus on welfare states, industrial relations, and party politics. His first book
Strong Governments, Precarious Workers was published with Cornell University Press in 2018.
Summary
Combining insights from comparative politics, party politics, comparative political economy, and welfare state research, the book provides novel insights into how the radical right manufactures consent for authoritarian rule.
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Most studies of the rise of the radical right focus on the cultural dimension of its nativist challenge and pay scant attention to its implications for the political economy. Philip Rathgeb's brilliant book fills this gap with theoretical and empirical brio. Across a range of cases, it shows how radical right parties in government adapt their nativist and authoritarian platform to different institutional settings, favouring welfare chauvinism, economic nationalism or trade protectionism. How the Radical Right has Changed Capitalism and Welfare is a must-read for anyone interested in comparative political economy, and indeed the future of liberal democracy.
