Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / ECPR Press
Pages: 206
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-78552-229-1 • Hardback • December 2017 • $84.00 • (£50.00)
978-1-78661-304-2 • Paperback • April 2019 • $38.95 • (£24.95)
978-1-78660-526-9 • eBook • December 2017 • $37.00 • (£24.95)
Sofia Vasilopoulou is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics, University of York. Her work examines political dissatisfaction with democracy and democratic institutions across Europe. Her work has appeared in the European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, and Government and Opposition among others. She is co-author of “The Golden Dawn’s Nationalist Solution: Explaining the Rise of the Far Right in Greece” (2015) and co-editor of “Nationalism and Globalisation: Conflicting or Complementary?” (2011).
In this ground-breaking book Vasilopoulou does what the very best comparative scholarship should do. She takes the phenomena of Euroscepticism and the far-right and, through rigorous case study combined with wider comparisons, she illuminates cases and recasts our understanding of both Euroscepticism and far right parties. This book is empirically rich and conceptually bold and grounded. Anyone working in these areas will need to engage with the ideas in this book.
— Paul Taggart, Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
Using a comparative lens, Vasilopoulou sets out to identify patterns in far right parties’ opposition against the European Union. The result is a detailed and multilayered analysis showing that far right party Euroscepticism is by no means uniform but varies from complete rejection of the European Union to selective opposition and even weak support of aspects of European integration. This book represents a significant and valuable contribution to the literature on the study of far right parties.
— Jens Rydgren, Chair in Sociology, Stockholm University
With Far Right Parties and Euroscepticism Sofia Vasilopoulou makes important conceptual, empirical and theoretical contributions to two of the most popular themes in party politics, moving beyond popular but simplistic stereotypes and instead highlighting the complexities of both Euroscepticism and the far right.
— Cas Mudde, Associate Professor, University of Georgia