Reflections on the Extreme Right in Western Europe, 1990-2008

ISBN-13: 9781138389427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 286 str.

Christopher T. Husbands

Opis

This book gives extended accounts of the major extreme right political parties or movements in a number of west European countries, looking at both their antecedents and at their support and significance in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Spis treści

Introductory Essay 1. What Goes Around Comes Around: A Critical Review of Some Major Contemporary Attempts to Account for Extreme-Right Racist Politics in Western Europe Country case studies 2. France: The Support for the Front National: Analyses and Findings 3. Federal Republic of Germany: Militant Neo-Nazism in the 1990s 4. The State’s Response to Far-right Extremism: The Case of Die Republikaner and the German National and Regional Authorities 5. The Netherlands: Irritants on the Body Politic 6. Belgium: Flemish Legions on the March 7. Switzerland: Right-wing and Xenophobic Parties, from the Margin to the Mainstream? 8. Great Britain: Selective Legislative and Political Strategies against the Extreme Right, 2000–2008 Comparative studies 9. Aggregate-data Analyses of Urban Racist Voting: Methodological Limitations, Lessons and Experiences from France, the Netherlands, the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland 10. Support for Right-wing Extremism in Western Europe: An Examination of the ‘Wave Hypothesis’ on the Basis of Time Series of Polling Results in Five Countries

O autorze

Christopher T. Husbands is Emeritus Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Since the 1970s he has published many articles on extreme-right politics in several countries and is the author of a book on the British extreme-right party, the National Front.