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Extreme right parties in Western Europe

This text explores the extreme right in order to assess its ideological meaning and political expression. Beginning with a discussion of the usefulness of the left-right distinction, it deals with the varied significance of the term 'right' and analyses the right's post-war evolution across Europe
eBook, English, 2003
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003
1 online resource (270 pages)
9780198293255, 9780191522055, 9781435624771, 9780191601903, 9781281198730, 9786611198732, 0198293259, 0191522058, 1435624777, 019160190X, 1281198730, 6611198733
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Meanings and varieties of the right
From ideologies to parties
Italy: the faded Beacon and the populist surge
Germany: the spectre that never materialized
France: prototype of the new extreme right
Austria: away from liberalism
Belgium: right extremism and ethnic nationalism
Scandinavia: the progress parties between protest and extremism
The Netherlands: a fleeting extreme right
Great Britain: a case of failure
The Mediterranean countries: too late for nostalgia, too early for post-material protest
Extreme right parties: the by-product of a "silent counter-revolution"?
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