German Perspectives on Right-Wing Extremism (eBook, ePUB)

Challenges for Comparative Analysis
Redaktion: Kiess, Johannes; Brähler, Elmar; Decker, Oliver

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317231837
• Artikelnr.: 45099513

Autorenporträt

Johannes Kiess is Researcher in the EU FP7-project LIVEWHAT at the University of Siegen, Germany, and a phd candidate in political science. Oliver Decker is a Member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University Leipzig, Germany, Head of the Research Unit Societal Change and Modern Medicine, and Head of the Center for the Study of Right Wing Extremism and Democracy. Elmar Brähler was until 2013 the head of the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and is responsible for a longitudinal research project monitoring the right-wing extremism attitudes in Germany (with Oliver Decker).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: German Perspectives on Right-Wing Extremism: Challenges for
Comparative Analysis
Part I: Methodological Challenges and Innovations for Comparative Research
1. Comparing Right-Wing Extremist Attitudes - Lack of Research or Lack of
Theory?
2. Attitude and Agency: Common Roots, Divergent Methodologies, Joint
Ventures?
3. National Identity and Immigration in the Concepts of Right-Wing
Extremism and Societal Security
4. A Multi-Method Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Anti-Pluralistic
Politics
Part II: Comparing Right-Wing Extremism: Exemplary Case Studies
5. "Fertile Soil for Ideological Confusion"? The Extremism of the Centre
6. Fear of Social Decline and Treading on Those Below? The Role of Social
Crises and Insecurities in the Emergence and the Reception of Prejudices in
Austria
7. Terrorism Made in Germany: the Case of the NSU
8. Extremist or Populist? Proposing a Set of Criteria to Distinguish
Right-Wing Parties in Western Europe