ABSTRACT
This Epilogue focuses on three contextual and theoretical socio-political considerations which have played an essential role in shaping the contemporary right and which will have great bearing on the prospects for the Right in the Atlantic area, the subject of this book, in the post-Covid era: the long-running “crisis of democracy”; historic policy consensuses between left and right using Bobbio’s by now classic theory on the left-right distinction as a guide; and, finally, more recent policy convergence between centre and radical rights, facilitated by an ideological attachment to two central organising principles in the economy and society: neoliberalism and social hierarchy. Using the framework, two key co-constitutive questions emerge regarding the shape of a post-Covid world: What kind of democracy—what kind of State—might emerge? And, what kind of capitalism?
