Rainer-olaf Schultze

Conservative Parties and Right-Wing Politics in North America - Politikwissenschaftliche Paperbacks Rainer-olaf Schultze 2003 edition

Jacket Description/Back: The thirteen papers assembled in this volume offer a comparative perspective on the state of conservative and right-wing populist parties in the North American democraties. They deal with: Ideological and Value Change in the North American Mass Publics, Conservative Ideology and Party Programmes, The Changing Landskape of the Two Party Systems, The Public Policies of Conservative and Neo-Liberal Governments in North AmericaBiographical Note: Rainer-Olaf Schultze, Dr. phil., Professor of Political Science and Managing Director of the Institute for Canadian Studies at the University of Augsburg; Roland Sturm, Dr. phil., Professor of Political Science and Head of the Institute of Political Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Dagmar Eberle, Dipl.-Pol., Institute for Canadian Studies at the University of AugsburgTable of Contents: With contributions from: Dagmar Eberle/Rainer-Olaf Schultze/Roland Sturm, Neil Nevitte/Antoine Bilodeau, Richard A. Brody/Jennifer L. Lawless, Jane Jenson, Dagmar Eberle, David Laycock, Jurgen Gebhardt, Howard L. Reiter, William Cross/Lisa Young, Martin Thunert, James D. Savage"Publisher Marketing: Even a quick glance at the party systems of North American and European democracies since the 1970s reveals the complexity and variation across time and space that characterizes the ideological roots, programmatic orientations and organizational arrangements of political conservatism. On both sides of the Atlantic, the 1980s saw important changes inspired by neo-conservatism. Although many neo-conservative governments in the industrialized world were voted out of office in the 1990s, they succeeded in anchoring their spe cific understanding of the state and public policy in the political mainstream. Core elements of the neo-conservative agenda - such as the goal of fiscal consolidation - were widely adopted, even by social democratic parties in Europe. At the tum of the millennium, one could observe the return to power of conservative parties in some countries, for example in the United States. Yet the parties of the Right also faced considerable tensions over the last few decades, which often triggered the decline or break-up of established conser vative parties as weB as the rise of new parties. In North America and Europe alike, the phenomenon of right-wing populism resurfaced in the political arena. Particularly in the North American democracies, the formation of new right-wing parties went along with ideological, programmatic and organiza tional changes. These forced established conservative parties in North Amer ica to implement concomitant changes and at the same time served as model for conservative parties in Europe."

Contributor Bio:  Sturm, Roland Roland Sturm is an economist at RAND.