About the Event

In spite of the fact that Conservative, Christian democratic and Liberal parties continue to play a crucial role in the democratic politics and governance of every Western European country, they are rarely paid the attention they deserve. To address this research gap, in this presentation, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser will give an overview of the edited volume "Riding the populist wave: Europe's mainstream right in crisis" published by Cambridge University Press last year. By combining qualitative case studies with large-N quantitative analysis, this book reveals a mainstream right squeezed by the need to adapt to both 'the silent revolution' that has seen the spread of postmaterialist, liberal and cosmopolitan values and the backlash against those values – the 'silent counter-revolution' that has brought with it the rise of a myriad far right parties offering populist and nativist answers to many of the continent's thorniest political problems.

Speaker

Dr. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser is a Professor of Political Science at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile, Associate Researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). He is the co-author, with Cas Mudde, of Populism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017) and co-editor, with Tim Bale, of Riding the Populist Wave. Europe’s Mainstream Right in Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He was a Senior Visiting Fellow at SCRIPTS in 2021.

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