| Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral Market Contributor(s): Norris, Pippa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521849144 ISBN-13: 9780521849142 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $72.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2005 Annotation: The core puzzle which this book resolves is to explain why radical right parties have advanced in a diverse array of democracies--including Austria, Canada, Norway, France, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Israel, Romania, Russia, and Chile--while failing to make comparable gains in similar societies elsewhere, such as Sweden, Britain, and the United States. This book expands our understanding of support for radical right parties by presenting an integrated new theory which is then tested systematically using a wealth of cross-national survey evidence covering almost forty countries. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism - Political Science | Political Process - Campaigns & Elections |
| Dewey: 320.530 |
| LCCN: 2004027504 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.26" W x 9.26" (1.33 lbs) 366 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Norris, Pippa: - Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her work compares elections and public opinion, gender politics, and political communications. Companion volumes by this author, also published by Cambridge University Press, include A Virtuous Circle (2000), Digital Divide (2001), Democratic Phoenix (2002), and Rising Tide (2003), Electoral Engineering (2004) and Sacred and Secular (2004). |