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German Perspectives on Right-Wing Extremism
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ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |8 pages
Introduction: German perspectives on right-wing extremism: challenges for comparative analysis
part |2 pages
Part I Methodological challenges and innovations for comparative research
chapter 1|19 pages
Comparing right-wing extremist attitudes: lack of research or lack of theory?
chapter 2|13 pages
Attitude and agency: common roots, divergent methodologies, joint ventures?
chapter 3|18 pages
National identity and immigration in the concepts of right-wing extremism and societal security
chapter 4|20 pages
A multi-method approach to the comparative analysis of anti-pluralistic politics
part |2 pages
Part II Comparing right-wing extremism: exemplary case studies