Title page-The Radical Right in Switzerland; Contents; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1-The Concept of the Radical Right; Chapter 2-Success Conditions and Organisational Variation in Switzerland; Chapter 3-An Early Precursor: The Movement Against Overforeignization in the 1960s and 1970s; Chapter 4-Outsiders in the Party System; Chapter 5-Entering the Mainstream; Chapter 6-A Supplier of Ideology; Chapter 7-An Itellectual Elite; Chapter 8-At the Margins of Society and Politics; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
Summary
There has been a tendency amongst scholars to view Switzerland as a unique case, and comparative scholarship on the radical right has therefore shown little interest in the country. Yet, as the author convincingly argues, there is little justification for maintaining the notion of Swiss exceptionalism, and excluding the Swiss radical right from cross-national research. His book presents the first comprehensive study of the development of the radical right in Switzerland since the end of the Second World War and therefore fills a significant gap in our knowledge. It examines the role that parti
