The empirical analysis of developments in the Front National’s socio-economic programme since the 1980s shows that the party has gradually moved away from its original neoliberal preferences to adopt a redistributive, protectionist and interventionist agenda, the centre of gravity of which is now to...

The debt crisis, demographic ageing and structural changes in the labour market pose challenges for the social state. These phenomena reinforce the chauvinism of some right-wing parties in many European countries as regards welfare states. However, the answers proposed by these parties are only appa...