Cas Mudde

The Far Right in America

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Produktbeschreibung

This book collects Mudde'sblog posts, interviews and op-eds on the topic of the US far right, ranging from neoconservatives to the neo-Nazi terrorists. The main emphasis of the book is on the two most important far right developments of the 21st century, the Tea Party and Donald Trump. Primarily aimed at a non-academic audience,the book explainsterminology,clarifies the key terms and their relationship to (liberal) democracy.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Focus
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781138063891
• ISBN-10: 1138063894
• Artikelnr.: 48523852

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

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Definitions: the various shades of the US far right
2. A short history of the far right in America
3. The Tea Party paradox
4. Wisconsin's Sikh massacre: the real danger
5. America's new revolutionaries
6. America's election and the Tea Party
7. Is the Revolution eating its children? The US Tea Party, between
AstroTurf and grassroots
8. The Green Scare: Why Islamophobia is the new Red Scare
9. The Trump phenomenon and the European populist radical right
10. The power of populism? Not really!
11. Is the GOP a radical right party?
12. Will Donald Trump transform the (far) right in the US?
13. Trump: The Great White Hope
14. A Talk with Cas Mudde on American and European populism
15. The far right has arrived... and it could take Washington!
16. The revenge of the losers of globalization? Brexit, Trump and
globalization
17. Stop using the term "alt-right'!
18. Why is American political science blind on the right eye?
19. Did Trump really hijack the GOP?
20. The latest Trump (and GOP and media) fiasco in nine points
21. Brexit, Trump, and five (wrong) lessons about 'the populist challenge'
22. Keeping it real in Trump's America
23. The far right in a Trump world
24. Donald Trump is an American original
25. Trumpism: normal pathology or pathological normalcy?
26. Donald Trump and the silent counter-revolution
27. What's the matter with America? Trump and the multidimensionality of
politics
28. Did Trump prove US political science wrong?
29. The politics of nostalgia
30. 2016 and the five stages of liberal denial
31. We are thinking about populism wrong. And it's costing us
32. The Trump presidency: the radical right in power?
33. What to read on Trump(ism)
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