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Politics of the Extreme Right : From the Margins to the Mainstream.
"Fascist, authoritarian, anti-Semitic and extremist movements made a powerful and devastating contribution to the 20th century. While the experiences of the 1930s and 1940s served to delegitimise such forces, contemporary Europe and the USA have witnessed the resurgence of extreme right-wing po...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2016.
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| Colección: | History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic Collections.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the extreme right; Introduction; The extreme right: definitional problems; The extreme right: parties, policies and perspectives; Conclusion; References; 2 The Front National, from ascendancy to fragmentation on the French extreme right; Introduction; From obscurity to success; Voters; Policies; Conclusion: schism; References; 3 Jorg Haider and the new FPO: beyond the democratic pale?; The pan-German tradition in Austria pre-1945; Re-establishing Austria after Hitler.
- Defining the extreme right in post-war AustriaTowards liberalism? The FPO and the integration of the third Lager into post-war Austria; Problems of the Second Republic in the 1980s; The re-emergence of right-wing populism; Haider and the politics of right-wing populism; Conclusions; References; 4 Exit from the ghetto: the Italian far right in the 1990s; The years of endurance, 1946-90; Escape from the ghetto; Conclusion; References; 5 Right-wing extremism in unified Germany; A brief definition of right-wing extremism; West Germany: the three waves of right-wing extremism.
- The Republikaner in unified GermanyElections and membership trends; Policy platform; Internal division; Right-wing extremism in the new Lander; Anti-fascism in the GDR; System transformation; The Land elections of 1998 in Saxony-Anha; The asylum-seeker issue; Influence on the political climate; Conclusion; Abbreviations used in this chapter and organizations mentioned; Notes; References and further reading; 6 Belgium: explaining the relationship between Vlaams Blok and the city of Antwerp; Introduction; General context; The financial and economic crisis.
- Social, political and cultural decompartmentalizationThe crumbing electoral base of the two coalition partners; New policy challenges and the ruling parties; The strategy of the Vlaams Blok; The peak: the municipal elections of 24 October 1994 in Antwerp; Conclusion; Notes; References; 7 The Netherlands: explaining the limited success of the extreme right; Introduction; History of extreme right parties in the Netherlands; Organization and ideology of the CD; The electoral basis: protest or xenophobia?; Explaining the limited success of the Dutch extreme right; Notes; References.
- 8 The extreme right and British exceptionalism: the primacy of politicsBritish exceptionalism; The problem of extreme right support; Who voted for and joined the NF in the 1970s?; The failure of the NF and the British political tradition; The BNP: the same old story?; Conclusion; References; 9 Radical right-wing populism in Scandinavia: from tax revolt to neo-liberalism and xenophobia; Introduction; The breakthrough of new parties; Leadership as a condition for consolidation; Electoral support; Ideology and political style; Not so much populism in style; No traditional populist ideology.