Description
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the European Left Party (EL), a transnational party founded in 2004. It is the first detailed analysis of the EL to date.
Trade Review‘Can the radical left somehow bend the European project to its purposes? That’s one of the main questions arising from a new book by Richard Dunphy and Luke March, two of the few Anglophone academics who have given radical-left parties serious attention. Their latest work looks at the experience of the European Left Party, a transnational party formed in 2004 by some of Europe’s leading RLPs to coordinate their efforts. It opens out into a wider picture of the contemporary radical left and its approach to European integration.’
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 EU party politics and the role of the transnational parties
2 Radical left parties and European integration: the legacy of history
3 The origins and emergence of the European Left Party
4 The organisation, structure and political presence of the European Left Party
5 Programmatic and policy coherence and development
6 The EL as the ‘nexus of networks’? Developing relations with the movements and broader European radical left
7 The EL in comparative context: organisational and programmatic developments among left-of-centre TNPs
Conclusion
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