Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral Market

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 almost forty countries.

Author: Pippa Norris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/22/2005
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.26w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780521849142

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2006 pg. 2070

About the Author
Norris, Pippa: - Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her work compares elections and public opinion, gender politics, and political communications. Companion volumes by this author, also published by Cambridge University Press, include A Virtuous Circle (2000), Digital Divide (2001), Democratic Phoenix (2002), and Rising Tide (2003), Electoral Engineering (2004) and Sacred and Secular (2004).