Riding the Populist Wave - Europe''s Mainstream Right in Crisis

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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tim (Queen Mary University of London) Rovira Bale
• Assisted by: Tim Bale (Editor), Bale Tim (Editor), Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2021
• EAN: 9781009009058
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0900905-8
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Fascism & Nazism, Political structures: democracy, Comparative Politics, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Political structures / systems: democracy