Riding the Populist Wave

Tim Bale is an expert on European politics and political parties. He won the UK Political Studies Association's W.J.M. Mackenzie prize for his book The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron (2010) and is a frequent contributor to broadcast, print and social media in both Britain and beyond. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser is an expert on populism, who has held visiting appointments at Nuffield College, Sciences Po, the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) and Uppsala University. He is the co-author of the book Populism. A Very Short Introduction (with Cas Mudde, 2017) which has been translated into more than ten languages.

• Preface; 1. The mainstream right in western europe: caught between the silent and silent counter-revolutions Tim Bale and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser; 2. The demand side: profiling the electorate of the mainstream right in western europe since the 2000s Eelco Harteveld; 3. The supply side: mainstream right party policy positions in a changing political space Tarik Abou-Chadi and Werner Krause; 4. Austria: tracing the Christian democrats' adaptation to the silent counter-revolution Reinhard Heinisch and Annika Werner; 5. France: party system change and the demise of the post-gaullist right Jocelyn Evans and Gilles Ivaldi; 6. Germany: how the Christian democrats manage to adapt to the silent counter-revolution Sarah E. Wiliarty; 7. Italy: the Italian mainstream right and its Allies, 1994-2018 Pietro Castelli Gattinara and Caterina Froio; 8. The Netherlands: how the mainstream right normalised the silent counter-revolution Stijn van Kessel; 9. Spain: the development and decline of the popular party Sonia Alonso and Bonnie N. Field; 10. Sweden: the difficult adaptation of the moderates to the silent counter-revolution Anders Ravik Jupskås; 11. The UK: the conservatives and their competitors in the post-thatcher era Richard Hayton; 12. The mainstream right in western europe in the 21st century Tim Bale and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser; References; Index.

'This book exhibits three main assets: it provides an updated overview of the evolution of the right populist parties; it covers an unusually large number of national cases; it frames the analysis within the dynamics of the different party systems highlighting the relationship between populists and mainstream right parties.' Piero Ignazi, Università di Bologna