Overview
- Provides a unique, systematic and comprehensive analysis of organizational issues of populist parties over time
- Links contemporary literature on populism to the classical literature on party organization
- Explores a range of political parties in Western Europe
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Right-wing populist parties are thriving throughout Europe. With few exceptions, political systems have seen such parties make significant electoral gains and shape the national political discourse across the continent. In recent years, many populist parties have undergone leadership changes and other evolutionary challenges to which they adapted well, often contrary to expectations. This timely collection is devoted to understanding how Western European right-wing populist parties organize themselves.
Without understanding the role of the organizational dynamics, we fail to understand how populist parties adapt over time and thus endure. Providing a systematic and comprehensive analysis of organizational issues of populist parties over time, Understanding Populist Party Organisation explores a range of political parties in Western Europe, examining their internal dynamics and questioning whether it is possible to discern or construct a general “populist”party typology of organization and representation.
The book includes chapters on the Austrian Freedom Party, the Vlaams Belang, the Swiss People’s Party, the Lega Nord, the Front National, the Norwegian Progress Party, and the Sweden Democrats.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Reinhard Heinisch is Professor of Political Science at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He also chairs the Department of Sociology and Political Science. His major research interests are comparative populism, euroscepticism, and comparative research on political parties and democracy.
Oscar Mazzoleni is Professor of Political Science at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and Director of the Research Observatory for Regional Politics. His main research topics include nationalism, regionalism, populism and political parties.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Populist Party Organisation
Book Subtitle: The Radical Right in Western Europe
Editors: Reinhard Heinisch, Oscar Mazzoleni
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58197-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58196-9Published: 13 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84510-1Published: 08 October 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58197-6Published: 01 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 258
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Sociology, European Politics, Ethnicity Studies