Content

• The dominance of right-wing parties in Western Europe
• Right-wing parties – where they come from and what unites them
• Challenges to both liberal and conservative parties
• The “newcomers”: populist right-wing parties
• The voter base of right-wing parties
• The social base of right-wing parties
• The programmatic renewal of the political Right
• The state as guarantee of security
• The reactions to the economic crisis
• The revitalization of Christian values and national identity
• Democracy as an instrument of power
• The Right’s new canon of values
• The strategies of right-wing parties
• New organizational structures
• The new political bedfellows
• Important social allies of right-wing parties
• The media – partners or victims?
• Reasons for the dominance of the political Right
• Suggested further reading

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