Comparing the extreme right in Belgium and France: Party ideology, electoral success and party system change
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2005
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Front national Vlaams Blok Vlaams Belang extreme right populism racism ideology political parties France Belgium Flanders extrême droite populisme racisme idéologie partis politiques Belgique FlandreSujets proches
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Gilles Ivaldi et al., « Comparing the extreme right in Belgium and France: Party ideology, electoral success and party system change », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.d5eac0...
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The purpose of this chapter is to contrast the situation of the Flemish Vlaams Blok and the French Front national on a number of key elements of party ideology, political competition and party system change since the mid 1980s. In deconstructing the ‘new society' utopia of the VB and FN, the analysis shows important similarities in the doctrine and, in spite of those parties' alleged commitment to representative democracy, illustrates a common and developed set of ethnocentrist, authoritarian, and anti-egalitarian values underpinning an essentially non-democratic ideology. The analysis draws on the electoral success, organisational development and institutionalisation of the far right in both countries and points to the comparable systemic isolation of those parties despite the growth and stabilisation of their electorates.
