Right-wing radicalism today : perspectives from Europe and the US
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Right-wing radicalism today : perspectives from Europe and the US
(Routledge studies in extremism and democracy)
Routledge, 2013
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book highlights recent developments in the radical right providing comparative analysis of current extremist activity in Eastern and Western Europe and the United States. It reveals the growing amount of connections and continuities of rightwing movements and ideologies across national borders. Subjects covered include:
Who joins radical right parties and why?
Recent developments in parties in Eastern & Western Europe
The transatlantic cross-fertilisation of ideological perspectives
How the US extreme-right has changed since the emergence of the Tea Party movement
This will be essential reading for all students and scholars within an interest in the contemporary radical right and extremism.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Sabine von Mering & Timothy Wyman McCarty 2. Globalized Anti-Globalists. The Ideological Basis of the Internationalization of Right-Wing Extremism Thomas Grumke 3. Right-Wing Extremism and Populism in Contemporary Germany and Western Europe Hans-Gert Jaschke 4. National Solidarity-No to Globalization. The Economic and Sociopolitical Platform of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) Gideon Botsch and Christoph Kopke 5. Extreme Right Activists: Recruitment and Experiences Bert Klandermans 6. A Comparative Look at Right-Wing Extremism, Anti-Semitism, and Xenophobic Hate Crime in Poland, the Ukraine, and Russia Joachim Kersten and Natalia Hankel 7. Welfare Chauvinism, Ethnic Heterogeneity and Conditions for the Electoral Breakthrough of Radical Right Parties: Evidence from Eastern Europe Lenka Bustikova 8. From Tea Parties to Militias: Between the Republican Party and the Insurgent Ultra-Right In the United States Chip Berlet 9. Cycles of Right-Wing Terror in the United States Peter Simi 10. Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf - A Book of the Past in the Present Othmar Ploeckinger 11. Afterword Kathleen Blee
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