Cutting-edge comparative analysis of the challenges posed by the populist radical right to Western Europe's Conservative, Liberal and Christian Democratic parties.

Preface; 1. The mainstream right in western europe: caught between the silent and silent counter-revolutions Tim Bale and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser; 2. The demand side: profiling the electorate of the mainstream right in western europe since the 2000s Eelco Harteveld; 3. The supply side: mainstream right party policy positions in a changing political space Tarik Abou-Chadi and Werner Krause; 4. Austria: tracing the Christian democrats' adaptation to the silent counter-revolution Reinhard Heinisch and Annika Werner; 5. France: party system change and the demise of the post-gaullist right Jocelyn Evans and Gilles Ivaldi; 6. Germany: how the Christian democrats manage to adapt to the silent counter-revolution Sarah E. Wiliarty; 7. Italy: the Italian mainstream right and its Allies, 1994-2018 Pietro Castelli Gattinara and Caterina Froio; 8. The Netherlands: how the mainstream right normalised the silent counter-revolution Stijn van Kessel; 9. Spain: the development and decline of the popular party Sonia Alonso and Bonnie N. Field; 10. Sweden: the difficult adaptation of the moderates to the silent counter-revolution Anders Ravik Jupskås; 11. The UK: the conservatives and their competitors in the post-thatcher era Richard Hayton; 12. The mainstream right in western europe in the 21st century Tim Bale and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser; References; Index.