The Radical Right and Anti-Immigrant Politics in Liberal Democracies since World War II: Evolution of a Political and Research Field

@article{Minkenberg2021TheRR,  title={The Radical Right and Anti-Immigrant Politics in Liberal Democracies since World War II: Evolution of a Political and Research Field},  author={Michael Minkenberg},  journal={Polity},  year={2021},  volume={53},  pages={394 - 417},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:235494475}}
Most of today’s Western societies are characterized by a constant, more or less well-regulated inflow of migrants in variable quantities, and by the existence of immigrant communities. The political response to these phenomena has been reactive rather than proactive, since political elites have acted mainly when particular events ormassmedia pushed them, orwhen anti-immigrantmobilization occured. Mainstream political parties have been slow to take up the cause of new immigrant minorities in… 
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