1st Edition

The South European Right in the 21st Century Italy, France and Spain

Edited By Jocelyn A.J. Evans Copyright 2008
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

Since the European-wide domination of social democratic governments during the mid- to late-1990s, Right-wing parties have returned to power in the three largest Mediterranean democracies – Italy, France and Spain. This alternation has been symptomatic of growing majoritarianism in Southern Europe, a trend which has gone against much of the rest of the continent, and of a decline in clientelist... Read more

Jocelyn Evans (University of Salford) "Introduction"

The mainstream Right

Gianfranco Pasquino (University of Bologna) "The nature of the Right in Italy"

Florence Haegel (Cevipof / IEP-Paris) "Unity and plurality in the French Right"

Luis Ramiro (University of Murcia) "Party change in the Spanish Right"

The Right in power

Phil Edwards (University of Salford) "Populism and pragmatism in the Berlusconi government"

Raymond Kuhn (Queen Mary College, University of London) "The Raffarin government: a case of campaigning conservatism?"

Mireia Grau Creus (University of Murcia) "Aznar and the Partido Popular governments"

The Right and Europe

Phil Daniels (Newcastle University) Italy and Europe title tbc

Helen Drake (Loughborough University) "The French Right: a perspective on Franco-European relations"

Ivan Llamazares (University of Salamanca) "The Spanish Right and European Integration: re-crafting a Conservative position"

The Extreme Right

Piero Ignazi (University of Bologna) "Passage of witness in the Italian Extreme Right"

Jocelyn Evans (University of Salford) and Gilles Ivaldi (CIDSP, Grenoble) "A bastion of solitude: placing the Front National in the French Right"

 

Biography

Evans, Jocelyn A.J.