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 EuropeThe transatlantic cross-fertilisation of ideological perspectivesHow the US extreme-right has changed since the emergence of the Tea Party movementThis will be essential reading for all students and scholars within an interest in the contemporary radical right and extremism.
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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.
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 Plöckinger 11. Afterword Kathleen Blee
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ISBN
9780415627238
Publisert
2013-06-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
570 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
222

Biographical note

Sabine von Mering is Associate Professor of German and Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, US.

Timothy Wyman McCarty is Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US. His research and teaching focuses on political theory, the history of ideas, and literature and politics.