Cas Mudde

On Extremism and Democracy in Europe (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On Extremism and Democracy in Europe is a collection of short and accessible essays on the far right, populism, Euroscepticism, and liberal democracy by one of the leading academic and public voices today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317222217
• Artikelnr.: 44866002

Autorenporträt

Cas Mudde is Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, USA, and Researcher in the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Far Right
1. The populist radical right: a pathological normalcy
2. Three decades of populist radical right parties in Western Europe: So
what?
3. The myth of Weimar Europe
4. Putin's Trojan Horses? 5 theses on Russia and the European far right
5. Local shocks: the far right in the 2014 European elections
6. Europe of Nations and Freedoms: Financial Success, Political Failure
7. Viktor Orbán and the difference between radical right parties and
radical right politics
Part II: Populism
8. Jean-Claude Jucker and the populist zeitgeist in European politics
9. The problem with populism
10. Populism and liberal democracy: is Greece the exception or the future
of Europe? (interview with Antonis Galanopoulos)
11. Populism: a primer
Part III: Euroscepticism
12. European integration: after the fall
13. The European elite's politics of fear
14. What will the European elections bring the Western Balkans?
15. The 2014 European elections in numbers
16. Electoral winners and political losers in the right-wing Eurosceptic
camp
17. The key lessons of Syriza's defeat? A different Europe requires both
ideology and competence
18. It's time to end the Eurosceptic illusions
19. "Weimar Greece" and the future of Europe
20. Portugal faces a political crisis, but it's the same one facing
governments everywhere
Part IV: Liberal Democracy
21. The intolerance of the tolerant
22. After the storms: time to go beyond the obvious responses
23. Norway's democratic example
24. The do's and don'ts of banning political extremism
25. No, we are NOT all Charlie (and that's a problem)
26. What freedom of speech? Of foxes, chickens, and #JeSuisCharlie
27. As Europe looks fearfully outside, its liberal democracy is under
attack from within
28. Epilogue: European democracy after Paris