ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a valuable overview for students of German politics and related fields. It covers different subfields like right-wing terrorism, iconography of the extreme right, right-wing extremist attitudes and the Germanophone discussion on the differentiation of right-wing populism and right-wing extremism. The book presents at least a segment of Germanophone research on right-wing extremism in order to introduce the reader to theoretical and methodological debates as well as empirical findings that are often available only in German. It focuses on "Methodological Challenges and Innovations for Comparative Research" starts with a chapter by Johannes Kiess and Oliver Decker, in which they critically reflect on existing cross-country survey data. Michael Edinger and Eugen Schatschneider investigate the case of the so-called National Socialist Underground (NSU), a German right-wing extremist terror trio, as a challenge for political research.
