TY - JOUR

T1 - The new challengers

T2 - greens and right-wing populist parties in western Europe

AU - Muller-Rommel, F.

PY - 1998/5/1

Y1 - 1998/5/1

N2 - The decline in confidence in the traditional parties in Western Europe has manifesteditself through the emergence of the Green parties on the Left and populist parties on the Right. Despite successes in some countries, these parties have remained small, although they have been able, respectively, to play on the growth of 'post-materialist' values on the Left, and of anti-immigrant sentiments on the Right. The prospects for these parties are not very good, in particular for the right-wind populist parties, which are highly dependent on the popularity of their leaders, and even for the Green parties, although these can exploit the internal divisions within Socialist parties between supporters of the 'traditional' Left and supporters of the 'New' Left.

AB - The decline in confidence in the traditional parties in Western Europe has manifesteditself through the emergence of the Green parties on the Left and populist parties on the Right. Despite successes in some countries, these parties have remained small, although they have been able, respectively, to play on the growth of 'post-materialist' values on the Left, and of anti-immigrant sentiments on the Right. The prospects for these parties are not very good, in particular for the right-wind populist parties, which are highly dependent on the popularity of their leaders, and even for the Green parties, although these can exploit the internal divisions within Socialist parties between supporters of the 'traditional' Left and supporters of the 'New' Left.

KW - Politics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0031754201&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1017/S1062798700003227

DO - 10.1017/S1062798700003227

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:0031754201

VL - 6

SP - 191

EP - 202

JO - European Review

JF - European Review

SN - 1062-7987

IS - 2

ER -