Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe [Paperback]

Recent election success across the continent strikingly demonstrates the endurance of the extreme right in Europe. Piero Ignazi's volume provides the definitive account of this important political phenomenon. What is its significance? Why have such parties prospered in some countries and not others? Who votes for them and why? These are some of the questions that the book aims to answer during the course of its broad-ranging analysis.

Introduction
1. Meanings and Varieties of the Right
2. From Ideologies to Parties
3. Italy: The Beacon that Faded and the Populist Surge
4. Germany: The Spectre that Never materialized
5. France: The Prototype of the New Extreme Right
6. Austria: From National Liberalism to Extrimism
7. Belgium: nationalism and Right Extremism
8. Scandinavia: The Progress Parties Between Protest and Extremism
9. The Netherlands: A Fleeting Right Extremism
10. Great Britain: the Extreme Right that Never Took Off
11. The Mediterranean Countries: Too Late for Nostalgia, Too Early for Post-Material Protest
12. The Extreme Right Parties: The By-Product of a 'Silent Counter Revolution'?
Postface
Bibliography