Rural protest groups and populist political parties / edited by D. Strijker, G. Voerman, I.J. Terluin.
Material type: TextPublisher: Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2015Description: 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789086868070
- 908686807X
- 305.5633 23
- HD1521 .R87 2015
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 20, 2016)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Some agricultural or rural protest groups in the Western world evolved into political parties - often of a populist nature - whereas others did not. This book is the first to explore under which conditions this happens, and to what extent current populist parties have agricultural or rural ties and related agendas. Well-known authors with a background in rural studies or in political sciences describe and analyse the situation in a number of Western countries (the United Kingdom, France, Poland, Austria, the Netherlands, Australia, Finland). The contributions in this book show that the accessibility and responsiveness of the political system and the institutionalized agrarian interest groups, as well as the existing political landscape, are influencing the decisions of rural protest groups to found a political party. However, nowadays the chances of these parties being successful are small due to the declining share of the agricu
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