Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-344) and index.
Contents:
The mainstream right in Western Europe: Caught between the silent revolution and silent counter-revolution -- The demand side: Profiling the electorate of the mainstream right in Western Europe since the 2000s -- The supply side: Mainstream right party policy positions in a changing political space in Western Europe -- Austria: Tracing the Christian democrats' adaptation to the silent counter-revolution -- France: Party system change and the demise of the Post-Gaullist right -- Germany: How the Christian democrats manage to adapt to the silent counter-revolution -- Italy: The mainstream right and its allies, 1994-2018 -- The Netherlands: How the mainstream right normalized the silent counter-revolution -- Spain: The development and decline of the popular party -- Sweden: The difficult adaptation of the moderates to the silent counter-revolution -- The United Kingdom: The conservatives and their competitors in the post-Thatcher Era -- The mainstream right in Western Europe in the twenty-first century.
Summary:
"The origins of this project can be traced back to 2011 when the editors of this volume were working together at the University of Sussex. During this time Cristóbal was working on a book on the right in Latin America, while Tim was doing research on the Conservative Party in the UK. Soon after Tim started a new job at Queen Mary University of London and Cristóbal started a new job at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile. Nevertheless, we continued to stay in contact - and continued to remain baffled about the absence of comparative studies on the mainstream right in Western Europe. This bafflement led Tim to come to Santiago de Chile in March 2018 and we started not only to write a framework for analysis on this topic, but also to think about who else might be interested in writing on the state of the mainstream right in the different countries of Western Europe. Thanks to the support of the Thyssen Foundation, we were able to organize a two-day meeting at Queen Mary University of London in March 2019, in which we discussed a first draft of several of the chapters of this edited volume. We want to thank Susan Scarrow and Thomas Poguntke, who provided invaluable feedback to all authors during this workshop"-- Provided by publisher.
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