The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean

by Ruth Wodak

Book Overview

Winner of the Austrian Book Prize for the 2016 German translation, in the category of Humanities and Social Sciences. Populist right-wing politics is moving centre-stage, with some parties reaching the very top of the electoral ladder: but do we know why, and why now?

In this book Ruth Wodak traces the trajectories of such parties from the margins of the political landscape to its centre, to understand and explain how they are transforming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1446247007
• ISBN13: 9781446247006
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"