Gabriel Goodliffe currently teaches courses in International Relations and International Political Economy at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City. In addition to the present volume on the Radical Right in France, he is the author of the chapter on French politics for the forthcoming (fourth) edition of Europe Today, as well as a chapter on the Front National in New Perspectives on European Right-Wing Extremism, Identity and Passions, also forthcoming. Goodliffe earned his doctorate in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, in 2008. He previously taught courses in comparative politics, international relations and international political economy at the American University and The Johns Hopkins University.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Defining the radical right in France, past and present; 3. The class-cultural roots of the radical right: structures and expressions of indépendance; 4. The age of contentment: petits indépendants during the belle époque; 5. The fateful transition: petits indépendants in the interwar period; 6. The eclipse of the petty producer republic: petits indépendants from Vichy through the Fourth Republic; 7. The age of decline: petits indépendants under the Fifth Republic; 8. Epilogue: French workers in crisis and the entrenchment of the front national; 9. The radical right in France in comparative perspective; 10. Conclusion.

“Employing a class-cultural focus, Goodliffe provides the first substantive socio-historical analysis of the ‘losers of modernization’ theory of the radical right.”—Cas Mudde, DePauw University