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International Populism: The Radical Right In The European Parliament

By Duncan McDonnell , Annika Werner

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
0197500854, 9780197500859, 1787381390, 9781787381391, 0197513832, 9780197513835
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2196507 bytes)
Edition
1st Edition
Pages
282 Se\298
Time added
2020-02-09 11:38:03
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Description

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.

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