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Title German perspectives on right-wing extremism : challenges for comparative analysis / edited by Johannes Kiess, Oliver Decker, Elmar Brähler
Published London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 169 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in extremism and democracy ; 35
Routledge studies in extremism and democracy.
Contents Introduction : German Perspectives on Right-Wing Extremism Challenges for Comparative Analysis / Johannes Kiess, Oliver Decker & Elmar Brähler -- Comparing Right-Wing Extremist Attitudes : Lack of Research or Lack of Theory? / Johannes Kiess & Oliver Decker -- Attitude and Agency : Common Roots, Divergent Methodologies, Joint Ventures / Katrin Reimer -- National Identity and Immigration in the Concepts of Right-Wing Extremism and Societal Security / Marc Grimm -- A Multi-Method Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Anti-Pluralistic Politics / Karin Liebhart -- "Fertile Soil for Ideological Confusion" : The Extremism of the Centre / Oliver Decker, Johannes Kiess & Elmar Brähler -- Fear of Social Decline and Treading on Those Below : The Role of Social Crises and Insecurities in the Emergence and the Reception of Prejudices in Austria / Julia Hofmann -- Terrorism Made in Germany : the Case of the NSU / Michael Edinger & Eugen Schatschneider -- Extremist or Populist? : Proposing a Set of Criteria to Distinguish Right-Wing Parties in Western Europe / Tanja Wolf
Summary This book discusses right-wing extremism by analysing Germanophone research on this topic for the first time in English, including unique survey data from Germany and Austria. Highlighting how questions of terminology can become complicated when country cases are compared, the authors analyse theoretical and methodological issues in relation to the question of right-wing extremism. In Anglo-American academia, the term is often associated with fairly rare phenomena in the form of extremist political groups, whereas in Germany the term is often applied to a wide range of attitudes, behaviours and parties, including those which operate more within the mainstream political sphere. Covering an array of sub-fields such as right-wing terrorism, iconography of the extreme right and the Germanophone discussion on the differentiation of right-wing populism and right-wing extremism, the authors account not only for the centrality of right-wing extremist attitudes in Germanophone research, but also point at its often overlooked relevance for the phenomenon in general. Offering an important insight into the nuanced definition of right-wing extremism across Europe and enhancing both international debate and cross-country comparative research, this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching extremism, German politics and European politics more generally
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Right-wing extremists -- Germany
Political culture -- Germany
Political sociology
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Political culture
Political sociology
Right-wing extremists
Germany
Form Electronic book
Author Kiess, Johannes, editor, author.
Decker, Oliver, 1968- author, editor
Brähler, E. (Elmar), author, editor
ISBN 9781317231837
131723183X
9781317231844
1317231848
9781315625386
1315625385