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 2 - Extremist Right-Wing Parties in Europe
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 conceptualizes and classifies extremist right-wing parties by identifying their similarities to and differences from radical right-wing parties. It first produces a conceptual framework for identifying the two subgroups of the far right. Borrowing from existing literature on party families, it examines how various criteria such as the ideology, program, electorate, origins and international links of political parties can help distinguish between these two subfamilies. It then adds an important criterion this literature ignores, the type of political action parties undertake. Using this conceptual framework and the various criteria, the chapter then proceeds to the classification of forty-one parties in thirty countries.
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- Organizing Against DemocracyThe Local Organizational Development of Far Right Parties in Greece and Europe, pp. 10 - 39Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020