Right-Wing Radicalism Today: Perspectives from Europe and the US

224 Pages·2013·2.83 MB·English

by  Sabine von Mering, Timothy Wyman McCarty

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Right-Wing Radicalism Today
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Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
Series Editors: Roger Eatwell, University of Bath, and Matthew Goodwin,
University of Nottingham.
Founding Series Editors: Roger Eatwell, University of Bath and Cas Mudde,
University of Antwerp-UFSIA.
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Varieties of Right-Wing Extremism
The New Extremism in 21st in Europe
Century Britain Edited by Andrea Mammone,
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Right-Wing Radicalism Today
PerspectivesfromEuropeandtheUS
Edited by Sabine von Mering and
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newresearch intended for a morespecialist readership.Thesebookswill be in
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1. Uncivil Society? 8. Extreme Right Activists
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7. The Scope of Tolerance: Paul Furlong
Studies on the Costs of Free
Expression and Freedom of 14. Radical Left Parties
the Press in Europe
Raphael Cohen-Almagor Luke March
15. Counterterrorism in Turkey 17. Rethinking the French
Policy Choices and Policy New Right
Effects toward the Kurdistan Alternatives to modernity
Workers’ Party (PKK) Tamir Bar-On
Mustafa Cos¸ar Ünal
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Contents
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7 Welfare chauvinism, ethnic heterogeneity and conditions for the
electoral breakthrough of radical right parties: evidence from
Eastern Europe 106
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8 From Tea Parties to militias: between the Republican Party and
the insurgent ultra-right in the US 124
CHIPBERLET
9 Cycles of right-wing terror in the US 144
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10 Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf: abookof the past in the present 161
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Illustrations
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5.1 Right-wing extremism: demand and supply 63
6.1 Surveyof political and social values and attitudes 87
7.1 Party names 107