Radical Left Party Family in Western Europe, 1989-2015

Paolo Chiocchetti holds a PhD in European Studies from King´s College London. He is a Research Associate at the University of Luxembourg.

"I believe that what Chiocchetti’s careful and very detailed reconstruction does is to highlights the great differentiation among partisan subjects who would like to be grouped into a single family."Carlo Baccetti, University of Florence, The Professional Review of the Italian Political Science Association"...its contribution goes beyond the bounds of academia insofar as it provides not only a comprehensive and freely available database with temporally homogenized data on party strength of several European radical left parties operationalized based on electoral, governance, and membership strengths (both in term of absolute and weighted strengths), but also a sophisticated methodology that we can apply to other cases to broaden our understanding of the evolution and prospects of radical left in western Europe."Babak Amini, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, New Political Science

• Introduction 1. Toward an analysis of the contemporary Western European radical left 2. The Western European landscape, 1914–19883. The Western European landscape, 1989–20154. The German radical left: a success story5. The Italian radical left: the story of a failure 6. The French radical left: success or failure?7. Filling the vacuum? The trajectory of the contemporary radical left in Western EuropeConclusion