Rural protest groups and populist political parties / / edited by D. Strijker, G. Voerman, I.J. Terluin.

• TeilnehmendeR: Strijker, D.,; Voerman, G.,; Terluin, Ida J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Wageningen : : Wageningen Academic Publishers,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Table of Contents

• Preface; List of contributors; Table of contents; 1. Introduction; D. Strijker1*, G. Voerman2 and I.J. Terluin3; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Rural protest groups; 1.3 Populist parties; 1.4 Concluding remarks; References; 2. Explaining rural protest: a comparative analysis; M. Woods; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Placing rural protests in historical context; 2.3 Towards a comparative model of rural protest; 2.4 Britain: an unexpected rural uprising?; 2.5 Australia: marginalised militancy; 2.6 France: fragmented rural radicalism; 2.7 Conclusion; References
• 3. Rural protest groups in the NetherlandsD. Strijker1* and I.J. Terluin2*; Abstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Anti-modernist farmers; 3.3 Action-oriented farmers; 3.4 Progressive farmers' coalitions; 3.5 Non-farmers' coalitions; 3.6 Concluding remarks; References; 4. Actors in the distance: rural protests in the UK and the parliamentary parties; M. Reed; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Social movements and political parties; 4.3 Rural protests between the wars; 4.4 Mass mobilisation (1991-2003); 4.5 Into the post-political (2003-2011); 4.6 Conclusion; References
• 5. The Confédération Paysanne and the political field: a conflicted historyI. Bruneau; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Facing majority unionism and political authorities: the history of a double confrontation (1970-2000); 5.3 The anti-globalisation era and various uses of 'union independence' (1999-2005); 5.4 Concluding remarks; References; Annex; 6. Austrian pastoral: rural protest at the margins of a hegemonic policy landscape; F. Seifert; Abstract; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The hegemony of the People's Party in agricultural policy; 6.3 Hegemony through adaptation; 6.4 Dissenting voices
• 6.5 Two protest movements in recent years6.6 Conclusion: the pastoral conserved; References; 7. Farm protest and militancy in Australia: supporting or under-mining interest-group politics?; D.R. Halpin; Abstract; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The amalgamation of farmer organisations in New South Wales; 7.3 Amalgamation of farmer organisations in the rest of Australia; 7.4 Cementing a professional interest-group system: containing militants and embracing protest; 7.5 At the crossroads: militancy versus corporatism; 7.6 Controlling the militants
• 7.7 Corporatism and the professionalisation of the National Farmers' Federation7.8 Conclusion; References; 8. Contemporary populism, the agrarian and the rural in Central Eastern and Western Europe; S.L. de Lange* and M. Rooduijn*; Abstract; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Defining populism; 8.3 Types of populism; 8.4 Empirical manifestations of populism; 8.5 Agrarian populism, populist voting and rural support; 8.6 Conclusion; References; 9. The Polish Self-Defence party: from agrarian protest to the politics of populism, 1991-2007; B. Stanley; Abstract; 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 From movement to party: the emergence of Self-Defence, 1991-1993