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German Perspectives on Right-Wing Extremism : Challenges for Comparative Analysis, EPUB eBook

German Perspectives on Right-Wing Extremism : Challenges for Comparative Analysis EPUB

Edited by Johannes (University of Siegen, Germany) Kiess, Oliver (University of Leipzig, Germany) Decker, Elmar (University of Leipzig, Germany) Brahler

Part of the Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy series

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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.

Highlighting how questions of terminology can become complicated when country cases are compared, the authors analyse theoretical and methodological issues in relation to the question of right-wing extremism.

In Anglo-American academia, the term is often associated with fairly rare phenomena in the form of extremist political groups, whereas in Germany the term is often applied to a wide range of attitudes, behaviours and parties, including those which operate more within the mainstream political sphere. Covering an array of sub-fields such as right-wing terrorism, iconography of the extreme right and the Germanophone discussion on the differentiation of right-wing populism and right-wing extremism, the authors account not only for the centrality of right-wing extremist attitudes in Germanophone research, but also point at its often overlooked relevance for the phenomenon in general.

Offering an important insight into the nuanced definition of right-wing extremism across Europe and enhancing both international debate and cross-country comparative research, this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching extremism, German politics and European politics more generally.

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