La ultraderecha española: una presencia ausente (1975-1999).

Authors

  • XAVIER CASAL

Abstract

The Absence of the Spanish Extreme Right (1975-1999). Extreme right and national-populist parties have grown up all around West Europe, but Spain, Portugal and Qreece have made an ex-ception on this general trend. In the former these political tenden-cies eventually crashed, as it proves their electoral failures from 1982 onwards. This paper discusses, using a comparative pers-pective, the major reasons for this parties could not succeed: their old-fashioned and insolated political culture; their lack of skills to créate an organization; the existence of a democratic right; and the increasing generation gap between the younger and the older ranks. üpon these grounds, the claims made by the European extreme right (xenophoby, "neopaganism") have not met room in Spain.

Published

2008-04-17

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MISCELLANY

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