Riding the Populist Wave
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Riding the Populist Wave

Europe's Mainstream Right in Crisis

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Riding the Populist Wave

Europe's Mainstream Right in Crisis

About this book

In spite of the fact that Conservative, Christian democratic and Liberal parties continue to play a crucial role in the democratic politics and governance of every Western European country, they are rarely paid the attention they deserve.This cutting-edge comparative collection, combining qualitative case studies with large-N quantitative analysis, reveals a mainstream right squeezed by the need to adapt to both 'the silent revolution' that has seen the spread of postmaterialist, liberal and cosmopolitan values and the backlash against those values – the 'silentcounter-revolution' that has brought with it the riseof a myriad far right parties offeringpopulist and nativist answers to many of the continent's thorniest political problems. What explains why some mainstream right parties seem to be coping with that challenge better than others? And does the temptation to ride the populist wave rather than resist it ultimately pose a danger to liberal democracy?

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Yes, you can access Riding the Populist Wave by Tim Bale,Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & American Government. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. List of Figures and Tables
  8. Preface
  9. 1 The Mainstream Right in Western Europe: Caught between the Silent Revolution and Silent Counter-Revolution
  10. 2 The Demand Side: Profiling the Electorate of the Mainstream Right in Western Europe since the 2000s
  11. 3 The Supply Side: Mainstream Right Party Policy Positions in a Changing Political Space in Western Europe
  12. 4 Austria: Tracing the Christian Democrats’ Adaptation to the Silent Counter-Revolution
  13. 5 France: Party System Change and the Demise of the Post-Gaullist Right
  14. 6 Germany: How the Christian Democrats Manage to Adapt to the Silent Counter-Revolution
  15. 7 Italy: The Mainstream Right and its Allies, 1994–2018
  16. 8 The Netherlands: How the Mainstream Right Normalized the Silent Counter-Revolution
  17. 9 Spain: The Development and Decline of the Popular Party
  18. 10 Sweden: The Difficult Adaptation of the Moderates to the Silent Counter-Revolution
  19. 11 The United Kingdom: The Conservatives and their Competitors in the post-Thatcher Era
  20. 12 The Mainstream Right in Western Europe in the Twenty-First Century
  21. References
  22. Index