Organizing Against Democracy - The Local Organizational Development of Far Right Parties in Greece

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Using novel data, the book develops a new theory on how European far-right parties establish roots in local societies. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Antonis A Ellinas, Antonis A. Ellinas, Antonis A. (University of Cyprus) Ellinas, Ellinas Antonis A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108415149
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41514-9
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europa, Political Parties, Politische Parteien, Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften, Comparative Politics, Political parties and party platforms, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies