Book contents
- Organizing Against Democracy
- Organizing Against Democracy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Extremist Right-Wing Parties in Europe
- Chapter 3 The Organizational Development of Extremist Right-Wing Parties
- Chapter 4 The Organizational Development of the Golden Dawn
- Chapter 5 Variation in Local Organizational Development
- Chapter 6 Endogenous Drivers of Local Organizational Development
- Chapter 7 Electoral Drivers of Local Organizational Development
- Chapter 8 The State and Local Organizational Development
- Chapter 9 Societal Responses and Local Organizational Development
- Chapter 10 The Local Development of Extremist Right-Wing Parties in Germany and Slovakia
- Chapter 11 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 10 - The Local Development of Extremist Right-Wing Parties in Germany and Slovakia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2020
- Organizing Against Democracy
- Organizing Against Democracy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Extremist Right-Wing Parties in Europe
- Chapter 3 The Organizational Development of Extremist Right-Wing Parties
- Chapter 4 The Organizational Development of the Golden Dawn
- Chapter 5 Variation in Local Organizational Development
- Chapter 6 Endogenous Drivers of Local Organizational Development
- Chapter 7 Electoral Drivers of Local Organizational Development
- Chapter 8 The State and Local Organizational Development
- Chapter 9 Societal Responses and Local Organizational Development
- Chapter 10 The Local Development of Extremist Right-Wing Parties in Germany and Slovakia
- Chapter 11 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter seeks to probe the generalizability of the findings outside the Greek context by examining the organizational development of extremist right-wing parties in Germany and Slovakia. Utilizing the analytical framework developed and tested in the previous chapters, this chapter investigates the organizational development of two relatively similar parties in two distinct settings, the German National Democratic Party of Germany and the Kotleba – People’s Party Our Slovakia. The postwar and postcommunist contexts in which the NPD and the LSNS have developed are different from the postauthoritarian setting in which the GD evolved. The main purpose of this chapter is to show that, despite these notable contextual differences, the organizational development of the NPD and LSNS is affected by endogenous and environmental factors similar to those analyzed in Greece. The first section of the chapter briefly describes the basic characteristics of the two parties, highlighting their similarities to and differences from the GD. The second section utilizes interviews with the party leadership, organizational data from official and party documents, and the secondary literature to sketch the organizational development of the German and Slovak parties. The last section examines in turn the endogenous, electoral, institutional and societal factors affecting the development of the two parties.
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- Organizing Against DemocracyThe Local Organizational Development of Far Right Parties in Greece and Europe, pp. 194 - 235Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020