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The Re-invention of the European Radical Right : Populism, Regionalism, and the Italian Lega Nord

Zaslove, Andrej,i1963- [Verfasser]

Montreal : MQUP, 2011

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (297 pages)

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978-0-7735-8610-9 ; 978-0-7735-3851-1

 

Political commentators were surprised at the re-emergence of right-wing parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and early 1980s given that right-wing extremists had largely disappeared from successful electoral politics after the end of the Second World War. Since their resurgence, such parties have become permanent fixtures across Europe. The Re-invention of the European Radical Right examines what accounts for their initial rise and their continued success as well as how they should be classified: are they fascist, neo-fascist, radical, extreme, or populist?.