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 1 - Introduction
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
Extremist right-wing parties pose one of the most notable challenges to liberal democratic systems. This book breaks new ground by examining the organizational development of some of the most extreme parties in Europe at the local, rather than the national, level. The systematic analysis of evidence from hundreds of local branches and thousands of local activities demonstrates that even these highly centralized parties display notable subnational variation in how they develop. In some local settings, these really extreme parties have been particularly successful, and in others they have miserably failed. To account for the remarkable differences in local organizational life, this study explicates and then tests an analytical framework for understanding the local organizational development of extremist rightwing parties. It systematically examines how endogenous and environmental factors affect the capacity of these parties to penetrate local societies. This book builds on and pushes beyond the voluminous literature on the European far right parties and contributes to the broader literatures on political parties, social movements and militant democracies.
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- Organizing Against DemocracyThe Local Organizational Development of Far Right Parties in Greece and Europe, pp. 1 - 9Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020