By Hanspeter Kriesi
Over the last 3 many years the results of globalization and denationalization have created a department among 'winners' and 'losers' in Western Europe. This research examines the transformation of celebration political structures in six international locations (Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the united kingdom) utilizing opinion surveys, in addition to newly accrued facts on election campaigns. The authors argue that, due to structural alterations and the strategic repositioning of political events, Europe has saw the emergence of a tripolar configuration of political energy, comprising the left, the reasonable correct, and the recent populist correct. They recommend that, via an emphasis on cultural matters resembling mass immigration and resistance to ecu integration, the conventional concentration of political debate - the economic system - has been downplayed or reinterpreted when it comes to this new political cleavage. This new research of Western eu politics will curiosity all scholars of eu politics and political sociology.
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At the level of the European Union. This heterogeneity results in a twofold problem for the organization and articulation of political interests. First of all, it creates the already mentioned political paradox of globalization: due to their heterogeneity, the new political potentials created by this process are most likely to be articulated and dealt with at the level of the national political process. Moreover, it opens a ‘window of opportunity’ for the formation of new political parties and the restructuring of the national party systems.
Ceteris paribus, these difficulties lead us to expect that the citizens in France and Germany feel more threatened by the international economic competition and that, in these two countries, economic appeals to the losers of the processes related to globalization will fall on particularly fertile grounds. Given that, as we have just seen, the class conflict in France has still a considerable mobilizing capacity, this economic appeal should be most pronounced in France. Cultural context conditions The impact of the economic context may be modified by the countryspecific cultural heritage.
0, question C13: average scale value, 0 (= not religious at all), 10 (= very religious). 0, questions E1 to E12. 0, questions B15 to B24, summarized to participation scale, 0 (= inactive), 10 (= very active), calculated for those most militant in religious organizations/trade unions (questions E1 to E12). The most militant are defined as those who are involved in at least two out of four possible activities (= being a member, participating in the organization’s activities, donating money, doing voluntary work).
