New Challenger Parties in Western Europe - A Comparative Analysis

Zusatztext "This book then is a very welcome addition to the literature on new! niche! extremist! and challenger parties because it explores a question that was raised three decades or so ago but that was never really answered." - Elisabeth Carter! LSE Review of Books! June 2012 Informationen zum Autor Airo Hino is Associate Professor atWaseda University in Tokyo!Japan. Zusammenfassung This book provides a systematic and comparative account of the rise of ‘new challenger parties’ across Western Europe. It analyses how parties that challenge the conventional party system by addressing issues neglected by existing parties can succeed and fail. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. New Challenger Parties I: New Politics Parties 3. New Challenger Parties II: Extreme Right Parties 4. Electoral Performance 5. Institutional Settings 6. Socio-Economic and Political Conditions for New Politics Parties 7. Electoral Fortunes of New Politics Parties 8. Socio-Economic and Political Conditions for Extreme Right Parties 9. Electoral Fortunes of Extreme Right Parties 10. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Airo Hino, Airo (Waseda University Hino, Hino Airo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2012
• EAN: 9780415684774
• ISBN: 978-0-415-68477-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Political Parties, Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Comparative Politics, Political parties and party platforms