ABSTRACT
This book highlights recent developments in the radical right providing comparative analysis of current extremist activity in Eastern and Western Europe and the United States. It reveals the growing amount of connections and continuities of rightwing movements and ideologies across national borders. Subjects covered include:
- Who joins radical right parties and why?
- Recent developments in parties in Eastern & Western Europe
- The transatlantic cross-fertilisation of ideological perspectives
- How the US extreme-right has changed since the emergence of the Tea Party movement
This will be essential reading for all students and scholars within an interest in the contemporary radical right and extremism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|9 pages
Globalized anti-globalists
The ideological basis of the internationalization of right-wing extremism
chapter 4|23 pages
“National solidarity—no to globalization”
The economic and sociopolitical platform of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD)
chapter 7|18 pages
Welfare chauvinism, ethnic heterogeneity and conditions for the electoral breakthrough of radical right parties
Evidence from Eastern Europe
chapter 8|20 pages
From Tea Parties to militias
Between the Republican Party and the insurgent ultra-right in the US1
