1st Edition
The Rise of the Dutch New Right An Intellectual History of the Rightward Shift in Dutch Politics
Introduction: The Dutch swing to the right
1. Struggling with depoliticization
2. The rise of the Dutch New Right
3. The neoliberal strand
4. The neoconservative strand
5. A complex backlash
6. The double life of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
7. The birth of an online counterculture
8. Rebels without a cause
Conclusion: Both a revolt and an echo
Postscript: The next generation: Postscript on Thierry Baudet
Biography
Merijn Oudenampsen is a sociologist and political scientist. He works as a post-doc researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands.
"I've rarely read so rich and acute a study of a national culture, and the successive political metamorphoses within it, that puts it in so trenchant a comparative perspective. It's an education, methodologically and substantively, for any Anglophone reader."
Perry Anderson, Professor of History and Sociology at the University of California, USA.
"An exceptionally important contribution to a deeper understanding of Dutch politics."
Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Law Professor at Tilburg University, Special Professor of Human Rights at Amsterdam University, Dutch Minister of Justice (1989-1994, 2010-2016)
"An outstanding example of scientific practice."
Jan Willem Duyvendak, Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) and Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA)
"The best book on the rise of the Dutch right in the last twenty years."
Bart Jan Spruyt, author of In Praise of Conservatism (2003), former director of the Edmund Burke Foundation.
