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Demobilising the Far Right focuses on dynamics of mobilisation, counter-mobilisation, and state coercion to offer a new comparative study of far-right demonstration campaigns across Austria, England, and Germany from 1990-2020. With rigorous qualitative comparative analysis and process-tracing case studies, the book explores what factors drive the demobilisation of far-right movements and the critical role of state and societal responses. By examining key far-right groups like the British National Party and the German People's Union, it sheds light on a crucial yet underexplored area of social movement theory. Combining innovative methodology with rich empirical analysis, Demobilising the Far Right provides vital insights for understanding political violence, extremism, and protest movements as well as how states and social actors respond, and the implications for democratic societies.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Demobilisation and the Sub-Population of Large Far-Right Demonstration Campaigns; 3. Explaining Far-Right Demobilisation with Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Process Tracing; 4. Demobilisation Patterns: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Far-Right Demonstration Campaigns; 5. Ending Family-Friendly Fascism: Demobilisation of the BNP's Red, White and Blue Festival; 6. Going Downhill: Demobilisation of the Ulrichsberg Celebration; 7. Demolishing the Far-Right Playground: Demobilisation of the DVU Congress; 8. Conclusions.
About the author
Michael C. Zeller is an Assistant Professor in comparative politics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. He has co-led European Commission-funded projects about violent right-wing extremism in Europe and is a member of the Radicalisation Awareness Network Policy Support (RAN PS) and the European Research Community on Radicalisation (ERCOR).
