The Success and Failure of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Benelux Countries
This book focuses on the varied support for the populist radical right in the Benelux countries: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Despite many common characteristics, right-wing populist parties have historically been more successful in the Netherlands and Flanders than in Luxembourg and Wallonia.
This book argues that the variation in the success of right-wing populist parties depends to a large extent on the way in which they are perceived and received in a given polity. In the Netherlands and Flanders, mainstream parties and the media have contributed to politicising issues pertaining to immigration and national identity, thereby tilling the field for the populist radical right. In Luxembourg and Wallonia, mainstream parties and the media have resolutely limited the opportunities for right-wing populist challengers to influence the public debate.
This volume will be of interest to practitioners as well as students and scholars of party politics, the media, the populist radical right and the Benelux region.
Lonie de Jonge is Assistant Professor in European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK (2019). Her research has been published in different journals, including the International Journal of Press/Politics and Government & Opposition.
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The Success and Failure of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Benelux Countries
Lonie de Jonge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jonge, Leonie de, author.
Title: The success and failure of right-wing populist parties in the
Benelux countries / Leonie de Jonge.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Extremism and democracy |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020056992 (print) | LCCN 2020056993 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367502515 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003049258 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Political partiesBenelux countries. |
Right and left (Political science)Benelux countries. |
PopulismBenelux countries. | Right-wing extremistsBenelux countries. |
Benelux countriesPolitics and government21st century.
Classification: LCC JN5700.A979 J66 2021 (print) |
LCC JN5700.A979 (ebook) | DDC 324.2/1309492dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020056992
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ISBN: 978-0-367-50251-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-50252-2 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-04925-8 (ebk)
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Contents
ACRE | Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe Group |
AD | Algemeen Dagblad (Dutch newspaper) |
ADDE | Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe |
ADR | Alternativ Demokratesch Reformpartei (Alternative Democratic Reform Party, Luxembourg) |
AECR | Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists |
AfD | Alternative fr Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) |
AL | Actioun Ltzebuergesch (Action Luxembourgish) |
ARP | Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (Protestant Anti-Revolutionary Party, The Netherlands) |
BP | Boerenpartij (Farmers Party, The Netherlands) |
CEFIS | Centre dtude et de formation interculturelles et sociales |