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New Right
The term New Right is usually attributed to the American author and former Republican activist Kevin Philips (1940–). It has been used with increasing frequency since the mid-1970s, in association with political and intellectual movements in several countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as the United States. More recently, it has been used in connection with populist politicians in certain European states, such as Jörg Haider (1950–2008) of Austria and Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002) of the Netherlands.
However, most commentators trace the origins of the New Right to developments within the American Republican Party in the early 1960s and associate it with Barry Goldwater (1909–1998) and his 1964 campaign for the U.S. presidency. Although Goldwater's bid proved unsuccessful, the broad framework of ...
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