Tim Bale, Cinderella And Her Ugly Sisters: Article Analysis

The main and basic argument of the article written by Tim Bale, Cinderella and Her Ugly
Sisters: The Mainstream and Extreme Right in Europe’s Bipolarising Party Systems, is that the fragmentation and polarization of the Western European politics develops parallel to a trend that advances towards a two-bloc electoral competition. The author demonstrates and sustains this claim by providing the reader with three main hypothesis that the author Tim Bale progressively argues and verifies in order to prove to the reader the validity of his main argument. (Bale 69).
By reading this article, someone might claim that probably this will not be the same situation we would have today, since the basis of the proofs that the author uses to verify its hypothesis are
The first hypothesis, differently from the other two, relates greatly with the main argument of the entire article. I believe that by becoming the “party of the workers” (Bale 73), the right has increasingly attracted new voters. The right’s main concern has always been immigration, and through immigration and by the claims that it steals the job to the unemployed workers of the country, and also by the topics of the connection between crime and immigration and by the abuse of the welfare state, the party is able to attract new worker votes. As the article states, when the political campaigns are focused on themes such as immigration, crime and welfare state, the voters tend to identify themselves more with the right parties than with the left parties, which would normally advocate for the integration of the