No Enemies on the Right? Competition and Collusion between Conservatives, Moderates and Extreme Right Parties in Europe

摘要

We are used to putting parties of the Right into tidy boxes. On the one hand stands the established family of the mainstream right. Its parties have various names-moderates, centre-right, conservatives-but their origins and profile are easily recognisable. They derive from what Rokkan identified as the owneron-owner cleavage and their main raison d'etre is to cater for the interests of those with some kind of asset. Adepts of the market economy and electoral democracy they may show some variation in the importance which they assign to certain themes (religion, nationalism) but these are subordinate to the task of winning office in order to protect the interests of their core groups and any others whom they have persuaded to ally with them. They have long occupied the major share of space on the right wing of politics in all developed states.