Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe by Hans-Georg BetzReview by: Fritz SternForeign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1994), p. 172Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20046974 .

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an old European phenomenon, but it

changed in character with the mass

movements after 1945 and again with

the end of the Cold War. In 1991, Western Europe received 1.5 million

foreigners; in 1992, Germany received

over 500,000 asylum applications and

the United Kingdom 20,000. The

political, cultural, and socioeconomic

implications of these movements are

dealt with succinctly.

RadicalRight-Wing Populism in Western

Europe, by hans-georg betz. New

York: St. Martins Press, 1994, 222 pp.

$45.00 (paper, $18.95). A survey of the varying fortunes of radical

right-wing parties in all the West Euro

pean countries, Austria emphatically included. The author, a young scholar,

documents the chauvinistic, often racist

characteristics of these parties, which

exploit pervasive disillusionment with

existing parties?strikingly in the case of

Italy. Betz relies heavily on quantitative evidence and shows that these parties seem

to attract more men than women, more

young than old. These parties are a serious

challenge to the older conservative parties, and Betz says too little about how some of

the latter have moved to the right in order to absorb some of this populist vote. These

developments, so clearly inimical to liberal

democracy, require deeper studies. Future

studies could begin at home by including our own brand of right-wing radicalism.

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Oxford University Press, 1994,355 pp. $53.00 (paper, $19.95).

An introduction to the great ideological

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impact of past thought and events on

current politics. An unconventional,

informative, and suggestive work, by an

Oxford tutor and specialist on French

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richer in nuance. Still, a heartening book?for the specialist.

OMGUS-Handbuch: Die amerikanische

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1949. BY HERAUSGEGEBEN VON

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