Class Politics and the Radical Right

<p>One of the most significant events in European politics the past two decades is the emergence of radical right-wing parties mobilizing against immigration and multiethnic societies. Such parties have established themselves in a large number of countries often with voter shares exceeding ten and sometimes even twenty percent. Many of these parties exert a real influence on the policy within respective country.</p><p>The emergence of the recent wave of radical right-wing party politics has generated a large and growing literature spanning a variety of dimensions—such as ideology voting and policy impact. This volume will cover all these dimensions but it will in particular focus on two questions: why is it that the working class tends to be especially attracted by the radical right-wing parties? And what does the radical right-wing parties growing electoral successes mean for Social Democracy and the traditional left in Europe which are meeting growing competition from the radical right over working class voters? <br><br>Bringing together the leading scholars within this field this book makes a unique contribution by focusing on the relationship between class politics and the radical right. </p>