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 4 - The Organizational Development of the Golden Dawn
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 uses a unique collection of hundreds of issues of Golden Dawn (GD) publications and dozens of interviews with the GD leadership and activists to systematically trace its evolution from a street-level gang to the third biggest political party in Greece. The first part of the chapter briefly traces the development of the GD in the 1980s from a small National Socialist ideological movement to a marginal political party. The second part focuses on the ideological, programmatic and, more importantly, the organizational development of the party since the early 1990s. The third section focuses on its local party organizations and their activities, providing a rare overview of internal organizational life.
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- Organizing Against DemocracyThe Local Organizational Development of Far Right Parties in Greece and Europe, pp. 63 - 77Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020