Riding the Populist Wave

Europe's Mainstream Right in Crisis

Riding the Populist Wave
Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser, Tim Bale
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In spite of the fact that Conservative, Christian democratic and Liberal parties continue to play a crucial role in the democratic politics and governance of every Western European country, they are rarely paid the attention they deserve. This cutting-edge comparative collection, combining qualitative case studies with large-N quantitative analysis, reveals a mainstream right squeezed by the need to adapt to both ' the silent revolution' that has seen the spread of postmaterialist, liberal and cosmopolitan values and the backlash against those values - the ' silent counter-revolution' that has brought with it the rise of a myriad far right parties offering populist and nativist answers to many of the continent' s thorniest political problems. What explains why some mainstream right parties seem to be coping with that challenge better than others? And does the temptation to ride the populist wave rather than resist it ultimately pose a danger to liberal democracy?
' This book exhibits three main assets: it provides an updated overview of the evolution of the right populist parties; it covers an unusually large number of national cases; it frames the analysis within the dynamics of the different party systems highlighting the relationship between populists and mainstream right parties. ' Piero Ignazi, Universita di Bologna ' This excellent volume brings a welcome balance to the study of European political parties, by examining mainstream right parties, and the tensions and challenges they face. These parties have received less attention than their social democratic and far-right counterparts - yet they are every bit as critical to democracy. The analyses are rigorous, compelling, and indispensable. ' Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University ' Political scientists and pundits have focused on the supposed crisis of social democracy and the rise of populism in recent years. Little attention has been paid to a party family that has always been crucial for the fate of European democracies: the center-right. This excellent volume offers not only careful case studies of this party family, but also a sophisticated conceptual framework which is bound to inspire and guide further work. ' Jan-Werner Muller, Princeton University ' While the explosion of populist (radical right) parties and the implosion of social democratic parties are the sexy topics that have been capturing the bulk of the attention of the media and political science, the most important parties in Western Europe are mostly ignored. Riding the Populist Wave, a brilliant collection of original articles by junior and senior scholars, changes that. The book not only explains how the mainstream right has largely survived, and sometimes even thrived, but also highlights the fundamental challenge that populist radical right parties pose to the electoral and political future of the mainstream right, and therefore to liberal democratic politics in Western Europe. One of the most important books in European party politics in this relatively new century!' Cas Mudde, University of Georgia ' This ground-breaking book represents a massive development in the study of European parties. The focus on the mainstream right has been limited and this contribution from Bale and Rovria Kaltwasser not only plugs that gap but also sets the agenda for studying and it relationship with the populist wave. The volume offers conceptual development, rigorous comparative work and a vital source on key country cases. ' Paul Taggart, University of Sussex
Tim Bale is an expert on European politics and political parties. He won the UK Political Studies Association' s W. J. M. Mackenzie prize for his book The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron (2010) and is a frequent contributor to broadcast, print and social media in both Britain and beyond. Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser is an expert on populism, who has held visiting appointments at Nuffield College, Sciences Po, the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) and Uppsala University. He is the co-author of the book Populism. A Very Short Introduction (with Cas Mudde, 2017) which has been translated into more than ten languages.
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ISBN-13: 9781009009058
Published: 31 Aug 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300

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