International Populism: The Radical Right in the European Parliament (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780197500859)

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.

Author: Duncan McDonnell, Annika Werner
ISBN-10: 0197500854
ISBN-13: 9780197500859
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2020
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2020