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Abbreviations
Introduction
- Recent Challenges in Swiss Politics and Society
- The Swiss Radical Right:
- Underrated in Academic Research
- An Actor-oriented Approach
- Main Arguments and Structure of the Book
- Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Concept of the Radical Right
- Distinctions and Boundaries
- The Ideology and Politics of Exclusionism
- A Political Family and a Collective Actor
Chapter 2. Success Conditions and Organisational Variation in Switzerland
- National Traditions: The Front Movement in the 1930s
- Social Changes and the Support for the Radical Right
- The Openness of the Swiss Political System
- National Identity, Swiss Exceptionalism and Fears of 'Overforeignization'
- The Political Family of the Radical Right in Switzerland
Chapter 3. An Early Precursor: The Movement against Overforeignization in the 1960s and 1970s
- A Divided Movement of Fringe Parties
- The Power of Direct Democracy
- Populist Strategy and Exclusionist Ideology
Chapter 4. Outsiders in the Party System: Fringe Parties in the 1980s and 1990s
- The Swiss Democrats: Survivors of the Movement against Overforeignization
- The Swiss Democratic Union: A Fundamentalist Party and its Exclusionist Worldview
- The Car Party/Freedom Party: Rise and Fall of a New Radical Right-wing Populist Party
- The Lega dei Ticinesi: A Regionalist, Anti-establishment Party
Chapter 5. Entering the Mainstream: The Emergence of the New SVP in the 1990s
- The Old SVP: The History of a Right-wing, Mainstream Party
- Towards the New SVP: The Process of Structural Transformation
- The Extraordinary Electoral Rise of the New SVP
- Political and Ideological Radicalisation
- Reasons for the Success of the New SVP
Chapter 6. A Supplier of Ideology: The New Right in the German-speaking Part of Switzerland
- The Neoconservatives: Renewing Conservatism and Approaching the New Right
- The Ecologists: A Right-wing Version of Environmentalism
- The Neo-nationalists: For the Defence of Swiss Exceptionalism
Chapter 7. An Intellectual Elite: The New Right in the French-speaking Part of Switzerland
- The Counter-revolutionaries: Contesting Pluralistic and Parliamentarian Democracy
- The Integrists: Catholicism and Politics
- The Nouvelle Droite: Importing the French Legacy
Chapter 8. At the Margins of Society and Politics: The Subculture of the Extreme Right
- Ideologues and Propagandists: Disseminating Thought and Ideas
- Combative and Violent Groups: Emergence and Consolidation since the Mid 1980s
- Between Distance and Proximity: Linkages with Political Parties
Conclusions
- The Process of Normalisation
- The Radical Right as a Collective Actor: Linkages and Collaborations
- The Radical Right as a Political Family: Ideology and Intellectual Agenda
- The 1990s and Beyond
References
Notes
Index