The Great Realignment

Why the New Right Is Here to Stay
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5095-6746-1
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

The re-election of Donald Trump has illustrated in spectacular fashion the extent to which politics all over the world is in a state of continual flux. Old political configurations and parties are under unprecedented strain, with new forces, particularly on the hard right, challenging the status quo everywhere.

Rejecting stale analyses based on moralistic panics about 'populism' or social media, political commentator Steve Davies shows how we are going through a deep-seated process of realignment rooted in underlying structural trends. We are transitioning, he argues, from an era where the key political division was over the economic structure of society to one where the primary division is between a vision rooted in national identity and sovereignty, and an essentially post-national cosmopolitanism. This change upends the ideological and electoral alliances that have structured our political systems for decades.

No-one who wishes to truly understand the crises currently roiling the political status quo can afford to miss this stunning panoramic analysis of how this process works and how it is playing out across the world, from the USA and Germany to Argentina and India, and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter I – Making Sense of the Populist Revolt
Chapter II – How Politics Realigns
Chapter III – The Roots of Resistance
Chapter IV – The Dawn of Realignment
Chapter V – The New Dividing Lines
Chapter VI – The Social Foundations of the New Politics
Chapter VII – Conclusion: Taking the New Right Seriously

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Davies is Senior Academic Fellow at the John Locke Institute. From 1979 to 2009 he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was then Head of Education at the Institute for Economic Affairs. He writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph.