Book contents
- Riding the Populist Wave
- Riding the Populist Wave
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1 The Mainstream Right in Western Europe: Caught between the Silent Revolution and Silent Counter-Revolution
- 2 The Demand Side: Profiling the Electorate of the Mainstream Right in Western Europe since the 2000s
- 3 The Supply Side: Mainstream Right Party Policy Positions in a Changing Political Space in Western Europe
- 4 Austria: Tracing the Christian Democrats’ Adaptation to the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 5 France: Party System Change and the Demise of the Post-Gaullist Right
- 6 Germany: How the Christian Democrats Manage to Adapt to the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 7 Italy: The Mainstream Right and its Allies, 1994–2018
- 8 The Netherlands: How the Mainstream Right Normalized the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 9 Spain: The Development and Decline of the Popular Party
- 10 Sweden: The Difficult Adaptation of the Moderates to the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 11 The United Kingdom: The Conservatives and their Competitors in the post-Thatcher Era
- 12 The Mainstream Right in Western Europe in the Twenty-First Century
- References
- Index
2 - The Demand Side: Profiling the Electorate of the Mainstream Right in Western Europe since the 2000s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
- Riding the Populist Wave
- Riding the Populist Wave
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- 1 The Mainstream Right in Western Europe: Caught between the Silent Revolution and Silent Counter-Revolution
- 2 The Demand Side: Profiling the Electorate of the Mainstream Right in Western Europe since the 2000s
- 3 The Supply Side: Mainstream Right Party Policy Positions in a Changing Political Space in Western Europe
- 4 Austria: Tracing the Christian Democrats’ Adaptation to the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 5 France: Party System Change and the Demise of the Post-Gaullist Right
- 6 Germany: How the Christian Democrats Manage to Adapt to the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 7 Italy: The Mainstream Right and its Allies, 1994–2018
- 8 The Netherlands: How the Mainstream Right Normalized the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 9 Spain: The Development and Decline of the Popular Party
- 10 Sweden: The Difficult Adaptation of the Moderates to the Silent Counter-Revolution
- 11 The United Kingdom: The Conservatives and their Competitors in the post-Thatcher Era
- 12 The Mainstream Right in Western Europe in the Twenty-First Century
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter maps the development of the electorate of the mainstream right (and its subfamilies) in Western Europe between 2002 and 2016 based on the European Social Survey. It does so in terms of sociodemographics (education, income, occupation, age and gender) and attitudes (immigration, European integration, moral issues and redistribution). Special attention is given to factors setting the mainstream right electorate apart from that of the populist radical right. The chapter shows that the mainstream right electorate has a rather stable and broad social base, (still) characterized above all by (higher status) occupations and income levels rather than by education. In terms of attitudes, too, economic conservativism remains a stronger predictor than views on cultural issues. These and other chapter findings suggest that, despite underlying shifts in Western European social structure and party competition, the mainstream right’s electoral coalition shows a relatively high level of resilience.
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- Riding the Populist WaveEurope's Mainstream Right in Crisis, pp. 38 - 66Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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