The extreme Right in Western Europe: Success or failure? / Edition 1

by Elisabeth Carter

Overview

Parties of the extreme Right have experienced a dramatic rise in electoral support in many countries in Western Europe over the last two and a half decades. This phenomenon has been far from uniform, however, and the considerable attention that the more successful Right-wing extremist parties have received has sometimes obscured the fact that these parties have not recorded high electoral results in all West European democracies. Furthermore, their electoral scores have also varied over time, with the same party recording low electoral scores in one election but securing high electoral scores in another.

This book examines the reasons behind the variation in the electoral fortunes of the West European parties of the extreme Right in the period since the late 1970s. It proposes a number of different explanations as to why certain parties of the extreme Right have performed better than others at the polls and it investigates each of these different explanations systematically and in depth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719070488
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	07/28/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Elisabeth Carter is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment at Keele University

Table of Contents

1. The varying electoral fortunes of the West European parties of the extreme right
2. Party ideology
3. Party organization and leadership
4. Party competition
5. The institutional environment
6. Accounting for varying electoral fortunes
Appendix A. The ideological positions of West European political parties
Appendix B. The political space in the different countries of Western Europe
Appendix C. The disproportionality of elections, 1979-2003