LEADER 03046cam a2200361 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20230127164552.0 008 950901s1995 miua b 001 0 eng 010 95041373 020 0472106635 (hc : alk. paper) 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC |dhubpceuo |beng 041 eng 043 ew----- 050 00 JN94.A979 |bK569 1995 082 00 324.24/038/09049 |220 100 1 Kitschelt, Herbert, |d1955- 245 14 The radical right in Western Europe : |ba comparative analysis / |cHerbert Kitschelt ; in collaboration with Anthony J. McGann. 260 Ann Arbor : |bUniversity of Michigan Press, |cc1995. 300 xiii, 332 p. : |bill. ; |c24 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-321) and index. 520 The rise of new political competitors on the radical right is a central feature of many contemporary European party systems. The first study of its kind based on a wide array of comparative survey data, The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis provides a unifying framework to explain why rightist parties are electorally powerful in some countries but not in others. The book argues that changes in social structure and the economy do not by themselves adequately explain the success of extremist parties. Instead we must look to the competitive struggles among parties, their internal organizational patterns, and their long-term ideological traditions to understand the principles governing their success. Radical right authoritarian parties tend to emerge when moderate parties converge toward the median voter. But the success of these parties depends on the strategy employed by the right-wing political actors. Herbert Kitschelt's in-depth analysis, based on the experiences of rightist parties in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, and Britain, reveals that the broadest appeal is enjoyed by parties that couple a fierce commitment to free markets with authoritarian, ethnocentric--or even racist--messages. The author also shows how a country's particular political constituency or its intellectual and organizational legacies may allow right-wing parties to diverge from these norms and still find electoral success. The book concludes by exploring the interaction between the development of the welfare state, cultural pluralization through immigrants, and the growth of the extreme right. 580 The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection 650 0 Socialist parties |zEurope, Western. 650 0 Right and left (Political science) 651 0 Europe, Western |xPolitics and government. 700 1 McGann, Anthony J. |d1967- 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6324_240000000000000_038_09049_KIT |70 |8GEN |9161132OSA |bOSA |d2023-01-17 |eComFas |l0 |o324.24/038/09049 KIT |r2023-01-17 |w2023-01-17 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 KYQpraXg 992 01 324_240000000000000_038_09049_KIT |bWXV_XVZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_ZWR_ZQZVQ_FH6 966 |cIn the Research Room