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International Populism: The Radical Right in the European Parliament
The 2014 European Parliament elections were hailed as a "populist earthquake," with parties like the French Front National, UKIP and the Danish People's Party topping the polls in their respective countries. But what happened afterwards?
Based on policy positions, voting data, and interviews conducted over three years with senior figures from fourteen radical right populist parties and their partners, this is the first major study to explain these parties' actions and alliances in the European Parliament. International Populism answers three key questions: why have radical right populists, unlike other ideological party types, long been divided in the Parliament? Why, although divisions persist, are many of them now more united than ever? And how does all this inform our understanding of the European populist radical right today?
Arguing that these parties have entered a new international and transnational phase, with some trying to be "respectable radicals" while others embrace their shared populism, McDonnell and Werner shed new light on the past, present and future of one of the most important political phenomena of twenty-first-century Europe.
Based on policy positions, voting data, and interviews conducted over three years with senior figures from fourteen radical right populist parties and their partners, this is the first major study to explain these parties' actions and alliances in the European Parliament. International Populism answers three key questions: why have radical right populists, unlike other ideological party types, long been divided in the Parliament? Why, although divisions persist, are many of them now more united than ever? And how does all this inform our understanding of the European populist radical right today?
Arguing that these parties have entered a new international and transnational phase, with some trying to be "respectable radicals" while others embrace their shared populism, McDonnell and Werner shed new light on the past, present and future of one of the most important political phenomena of twenty-first-century Europe.
208 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2020
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January 16, 2021
I love the book. It did good job on discussing each party. Also, it discussed their agenda and electoral success. I wish that they would talk about each party's success in their own nation's federal or general election and as well as provincial election. I wish there was a book like this, but on left-wing populism like La France Insoumise, Podemos of Spain, Die Linke of Germany, Red-Green Alliance of Denmark and rise of Jeremy Corbyn.
October 30, 2020
Recent and much needes analysis of the RRP evolution in the European Parliament throughout the 7th to 9th EP mandates.
February 9, 2020
Welfare is a "right" and it was not made to buy votes from the public, now the competition should be hanged on Sunday in the market square for doing the same. Or the crap sold by the leeches living off tax money.
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