The Great Realignment

Why the New Right is Here to Stay

Stephen Davies

• Publisher: Polity
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN: 9781509567461
• eBook ISBN: 9781509567485
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Global Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The re-election of Donald Trump has illustrated in spectacular fashion the extent to which politics all over the world is in a state of continual flux. Old political configurations and parties are under unprecedented strain, with new forces, particularly on the hard right, challenging the status quo everywhere.

Rejecting stale analyses based on moralistic panics about 'populism' or social media, political commentator Steve Davies shows how we are going through a deep-seated process of realignment rooted in underlying structural trends. We are transitioning, he argues, from an era where the key political division was over the economic structure of society to one where the primary division is between a vision rooted in national identity and sovereignty, and an essentially post-national cosmopolitanism. This change upends the ideological and electoral alliances that have structured our political systems for decades.

No-one who wishes to truly understand the crises currently roiling the political status quo can afford to miss this stunning panoramic analysis of how this process works and how it is playing out across the world, from the USA and Germany to Argentina and India, and beyond.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• Chapter I – Making Sense of the Populist Revolt
• Chapter II – How Politics Realigns
• Chapter III – The Roots of Resistance
• Chapter IV – The Dawn of Realignment
• Chapter V – The New Dividing Lines
• Chapter VI – The Social Foundations of the New Politics
• Conclusion: Taking the New Right Seriously
• Acknowledgements
• Index
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