Organizing Against Democracy: The Local Organizational Development of Far Right Parties in Greece and Europe

ISBN-13: 9781108400350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 298 str.

Antonis A. Ellinas

Opis

Using novel data, the book develops a new theory on how European far-right parties establish roots in local societies.

Recenzje

'Many great studies of the far-right view this topic from the top down, and we need more work that looks at it from the ground up. This absorbing and impressively detailed book does exactly that. Ellinas clearly demonstrates that local-level organization, or the lack thereof, matters. For those concerned about the rise of extremism, this book also suggests, optimistically, that counter-mobilisation can make a difference.' Tim Bale, Sage Journals

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Extremist right-wing parties in Europe; 3. The organizational development of extremist right-wing parties; 4. The organizational development of the Golden Dawn; 5. Variation in local organizational development; 6. Endogenous drivers of local organizational development; 7. Electoral drivers of local organizational development; 8. The state and local organizational development; 9. Societal reactions and local organizational development; 10. The local development of extremist right-wing parties in Germany and Slovakia; 11. Conclusions.