Radical Right Parties: Voters and Parties in the Electoral
Market, Pippa Norris, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005,
pp. 349.
Voting Radical Right in Western Europe, Terri E. Givens,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 178
The growing importance of immigration politics in Western Europe
during the past two decades and the connected rise of radical right
parties have justifiably received much scholarly attention. While a first
generation of scholars treating this phenomenon were mostly concerned with
the social bases for the growing political influence of such parties,
recent studies have begun to emphasize the importance of purely political
factors, such as institutional frameworks and strategic party competition.
The books on this topic by Norris and Givens are two of the most prominent
accounts in this second generation of studies.