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Klappentext Organizing Against Democracy illuminates answers to the question of how far-right parties try to establish roots in democratic societies. Ellinas examines the local organizational 'lives' of three of the most extreme parties in Europe and the responses of democratic actors against them. Zusammenfassung Organizing Against Democracy illuminates answers to the question of how far-right parties try to establish roots in democratic societies. Ellinas examines the local organizational 'lives' of three of the most extreme parties in Europe and the responses of democratic actors against them.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Extremist right-wing parties in Europe; 3. The organizational development of extremist right-wing parties; 4. The organizational development of the Golden Dawn; 5. Variation in local organizational development; 6. Endogenous drivers of local organizational development; 7. Electoral drivers of local organizational development; 8. The state and local organizational development; 9. Societal reactions and local organizational development; 10. The local development of extremist right-wing parties in Germany and Slovakia; 11. Conclusions.
About the author
Antonis A. Ellinas is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cyprus. He authored The Media and the Far Right in Western Europe (Cambridge, 2010), and co-authored The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy (Cambridge, 2012).
