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Studies the recent West eu events of the unconventional populist correct, arguing that, in distancing themselves from the reactionary politics of the conventional extremist correct, those events became an important problem to the proven constitution and politics of West ecu democracy today.
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460) because they do not have the skills necessary for a modern economy or because they do not fit Radical Right- Wing Populism 33 otherwise into an increasingly ruthless postindustrial elbow society. Forming a rather heterogeneous group they are unlikely to organize themselves in order to be able to exert collective political pressure. The emergence and growth of an underclass in most advanced societies show perhaps most convincingly that the transition from industrial capitalism to postindustrial capitalism has not only created profound social tensions, but has left society deeply split.
Particularly, mass-integration parties tend to be in a difficult position when it comes to "transporting and deciding vastly differentiated political demands. As a consequence, they will sooner or later frustrate the expectations of their members, activists, and voters in that respect" (Kaase, 1984, p. 305). It is thus hardly surprising that dealignment processes have been particularly severe for Western Europe's Volksparteien (see Wildenmann, 1989). Declining partisanship can also be interpreted as a consequence both of the increase in the number of voters who are better 38 RADICAL RIGHT-WING POPULISM IN WESTERN EUROPE educated and of the media and information explosion (Dalton, 1984).
204). The core encompasses flexible and, if necessaty, geographically mobile employees aged 30 to 50 with formal professional education. They enjoy full-time, permanent positions with job security, increasingly "flexible, collegial forms of work organization in the typical form of autonomous project teams," relatively generous benefit packages, and good promotion prospects. Opposed to them is a marginalized periphery encompassing both full and part-time labor whose work "remains routinized, subject to control and direction by professional 'superiors', poorly rewarded, and insecure" (Cook, Pakulski, and Waters, 1992, p.
