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Author:   Johannes Kiess ,  Oliver Decker ,  Elmar Brähler
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9781138195370

ISBN 10:   1138195375
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   02 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: German Perspectives on Right-Wing Extremism: Challenges for Comparative Analysis Part I: Methodological Challenges and Innovations for Comparative Research 1. Comparing Right-Wing Extremist Attitudes – Lack of Research or Lack of Theory? 2. Attitude and Agency: Common Roots, Divergent Methodologies, Joint Ventures? 3. National Identity and Immigration in the Concepts of Right-Wing Extremism and Societal Security 4. A Multi-Method Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Anti-Pluralistic Politics Part II: Comparing Right-Wing Extremism: Exemplary Case Studies 5. ""Fertile Soil for Ideological Confusion""? The Extremism of the Centre 6. Fear of Social Decline and Treading on Those Below? The Role of Social Crises and Insecurities in the Emergence and the Reception of Prejudices in Austria 7. Terrorism Made in Germany: the Case of the NSU 8. Extremist or Populist? Proposing a Set of Criteria to Distinguish Right-Wing Parties in Western Europe"

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This thoughtful and insightful volume provides readers with a comprehensive overview of Germanophone research on right-wing extremism, and introduces a range of epistemological and methodological debates on the topic at hand. - Katherine Williams, Cardiff University

""This thoughtful and insightful volume provides readers with a comprehensive overview of Germanophone research on right-wing extremism, and introduces a range of epistemological and methodological debates on the topic at hand."" - Katherine Williams, Cardiff University

Author Information

Johannes Kiess is Researcher in the EU FP7-project LIVEWHAT at the University of Siegen, Germany, and a phd candidate in political science. Oliver Decker is a Member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University Leipzig, Germany, Head of the Research Unit Societal Change and Modern Medicine, and Head of the Center for the Study of Right Wing Extremism and Democracy. Elmar Brähler was until 2013 the head of the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and is responsible for a longitudinal research project monitoring the right-wing extremism attitudes in Germany (with Oliver Decker).

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