Radical Right Voters and Parties in the Electoral Market [Paperback]

This book, first published in 2005, explains why radical right parties have advanced in a diverse array of democracies.During recent decades, radical right parties have been surging in popularity in many nations, gaining legislative seats, enjoying the legitimacy endowed by ministerial office, and striding the corridors of government power. Despite the interest, little consensus has emerged about the primary factors driving this phenomenon. This book explains why radical right parties have advanced in a diverse array of democracies--including in Austria, Canada, Norway, France, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Israel, Romania, Russia, and Chile--while failing to make comparable gains in similar societies elsewhere, such as in Sweden, Britain, and the United States.During recent decades, radical right parties have been surging in popularity in many nations, gaining legislative seats, enjoying the legitimacy endowed by ministerial office, and striding the corridors of government power. Despite the interest, little consensus has emerged about the primary factors driving this phenomenon. This book explains why radical right parties have advanced in a diverse array of democracies--including in Austria, Canada, Norway, France, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Israel, Romania, Russia, and Chile--while failing to make comparable gains in similar societies elsewhere, such as in Sweden, Britain, and the United States.The core puzzle which this book resolves is to explain why radical right parties have advanced in a diverse array of democracies--including Austria, Canada, Norway, France, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Israel, Romania, Russia, and Chile--while failing to make comparable gains in similar societies elsewhere, such as Sweden, Britain, and the United States. This book expands our understanding of support for radical right parties by presenting an integrated new theory which is then tested systematically using a wealth of cross-national survey evidence covering l39