Screen LibraryIlliberal politics in neoliberal times：culture, security and populism in the new Europe
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge cultural social studies |
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 304 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
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9780521839136 (hbk.) 0521839130 (hbk.) 9780521547840 (pbk.) 0521547849 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | D750 |
| CLC: | D750.2 |
| Call Number: | D750.2/B492 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-296) and index. Cinderella in the polis : rightwing populism as historical phenomenon and political concept -- Experience and events : reformulating the rightwing populist moment -- Beginning on the margins : the French first! -- "Neither right nor left : French!" The campaign for political normalcy -- The paradox of defeat : the rise and fall and rise of the French National Front -- The 2002 presidential elections : the fabulous destiny of Jean-Marie Le Pen -- The "new" April 21 : from the presidential elections to the referendum on the European constitution -- Reasserting the national against Europe : pol "The rise of rightwing populism has brought into question prevailing assumptions in social science about multicultural Europe. In this compelling study of populist politics, Mabel Berezin argues that the emergence of the movement in the 1990s was a historical surprise rather than an expected event. She questions whether rightwing populism would exist in the absence of the Maastricht Treaty and the subsequent intensification of cultural and economic Europeanization. Using an innovative methodology, Berezin analyzes the French National Front in relation to the broader context of Europeanizatio |