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Varieties of Populism in Europe in Times of Crises (Hardcover): Manuela Caiani, Paolo Graziano Varieties of Populism in Europe in Times of Crises (Hardcover)
Manuela Caiani, Paolo Graziano
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Populism is booming across all the nuances of the political spectrum. It occupies relevant positions in national parliaments, in governmental coalitions with mainstream parties or as successful challengers of the political status quo. This volume sheds new light on the topic from different methodological and theoretical angles and offers evidence from a variety of cases on the 'why' and 'how' questions on populism's emergence and consolidation in Europe over the past 30 years. The volume, composed of eight chapters, investigates how different populist parties in the European Union have been affected by the various crises, disentangling the role of the Great Recession vis-a-vis other factors (such as political and party system factors, but also structural social changes or cultural opportunities) in the growing strength of populist parties in various European countries. More specifically, the volume aims are to: promote critical discussion on the concept of populism, reflecting on its conceptual 'usability' beyond the traditional party families to which it is usually related; use a preliminary theoretical clarification to shed new light on the different ways in which populism has been articulated in the various European countries (either in Continental and Southern Europe, or in the lesser known and studied East-Central countries) since the economic crisis, which has acted as an external shock for many party systems, either giving birth to new political actors or consolidating existing ones; investigate the connections between populism and the national contextual political and cultural specificities that can determine the development of different types of populisms across countries, elaborating on different 'configurations' of triggering conditions for populism and reflecting on the limitations of a discrete conceptualisation of the phenomenon. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.

The Genetics of Political Behavior - How Evolutionary Psychology Explains Ideology (Paperback): Michael Ryan The Genetics of Political Behavior - How Evolutionary Psychology Explains Ideology (Paperback)
Michael Ryan
R1,351 Discovery Miles 13 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Takes a unique perspective by examining political ideology and behaviour via evolutionary psychology and genetics to explain conservative and liberal differences * Fascinating reading for students and academics in psychology, the social sciences, and humanities, as well as general readers interested in political behavior * Explores the potential future of political behavior and participation in relation to possible consequences of evolution and genetics

War in Spain - Appeasement, Collective Insecurity, and the Failure of European Democracies Against Fascism (Hardcover): David... War in Spain - Appeasement, Collective Insecurity, and the Failure of European Democracies Against Fascism (Hardcover)
David Jorge
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This work covers the international importance of the War in Spain through the two organizations that marked the multilateral action towards the conflict: The League of Nations and the Non-Intervention Committee. France and the United Kingdom diverted both deliberations as well as decision-making processes and mechanisms from Geneva. Non-intervention was appeasement's specific variable applied to Spain. Despite its name, it meant an intervention, depriving the Spanish government from its own defense while the fascist governments provided massive and regular support to the rebels. The League was damaged in its authority through the violation of its Covenant in Manchuria and Abyssinia. Once the War in Spain began, non-intervention was articulated with the main objective to confine the conflict to the Spanish borders. To this end, the designation of the conflict as a civil war (not a mere nominal nor anecdotal issue) in both London and Geneva was essential. By abandoning the Spanish democracy and foreclosing the collective security system, European democracies were also removing all that stood between their own societies and another world war. The failure of the collective security system that the League was supposed to safeguard, prompted by the impossibility of reconciling the British-led policy of appeasement with active anti-fascism, led to a climate of collective insecurity, during which arose a Second World War. This was precisely the main objective to avoid in the international order established in 1919 after the major collective catastrophe on a worldwide scale - soon to be overcome as that. The scholarship herein will prove essential for scholars of the interwar years' crisis, twentieth-century Spanish history and international relations.

The Genetics of Political Behavior - How Evolutionary Psychology Explains Ideology (Hardcover): Michael Ryan The Genetics of Political Behavior - How Evolutionary Psychology Explains Ideology (Hardcover)
Michael Ryan
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Takes a unique perspective by examining political ideology and behaviour via evolutionary psychology and genetics to explain conservative and liberal differences * Fascinating reading for students and academics in psychology, the social sciences, and humanities, as well as general readers interested in political behavior * Explores the potential future of political behavior and participation in relation to possible consequences of evolution and genetics

Considering Conservative Women in the Gendering of Modern British Politics (Hardcover): Clarisse Berthezène, Julie V. Gottlieb Considering Conservative Women in the Gendering of Modern British Politics (Hardcover)
Clarisse Berthezène, Julie V. Gottlieb
R2,589 Discovery Miles 25 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume examines how the British Conservative Party has appealed to women, the roles that women have played in the party, and the tense relationship between women’s activism on the Right and feminism. Covering the period since the early 20th century, the contributions each question assumptions about the reactionary response of the British Right, Margaret Thatcher’s party, to women’s issues and to their political aspirations. How have women been mobilized by the Conservative Party? What kind of party appeals has the British Conservative Party designed to attract women as party workers and as voters? Developing successful strategies to attract women voters since 1918, and appealing to certain notional women’s issues, and having produced the only two women Prime Minters of the UK, the Conservative Party has its own special relationship with women in the modern period. The shifting status of women and opportunities for women in politics in modern Britain has been garnering more scholarly attention recently, and the centenary of women’s partial suffrage in 2018 and Astor 100 in 2019 has done much to excite wider attention and public interest in these debates. However, the role of Conservative women has too often been seen as problematic, especially because of general assumption that feminism is only allied to leftist movements and political positions. This volume explores these themes through a range of case studies, covering the period from the early 20th to the 21st century. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Women’s History Review.

Putin's Fascists - Russkii Obraz and the Politics of Managed Nationalism in Russia (Hardcover): Robert Horvath Putin's Fascists - Russkii Obraz and the Politics of Managed Nationalism in Russia (Hardcover)
Robert Horvath
R4,074 Discovery Miles 40 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Putin regime and its propagandists have long claimed to be fighting the heirs of Nazi Germany. From its crackdown on domestic dissent to its aggression on the international stage, the Kremlin has regularly smeared its adversaries as fascists and fascist collaborators. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which Putin claimed would achieve its 'denazification', brought this propaganda to a new level of intensity. This book shines a spotlight on the disturbing reality behind Putin's anti-fascist posturing. It shows how his regime mobilised neo-nazis as proxies during Russia's descent into authoritarianism. Using court records and extensive media and internet sources, it analyses the relationship between the Kremlin and Russkii Obraz, a neo-nazi organization that became a major force on Russia's radical nationalist scene in 2008-10. It shows how Russkii Obraz's rise was boosted by the regime's policy of 'managed nationalism,' which mobilised radical nationalist proxies against opponents of authoritarianism. In return for undermining moderate nationalists and pro-democracy activists, Russkii Obraz received official support and access to public space. This collaboration became politically hazardous for the Kremlin because of Russkii Obraz's neo-Nazi ideology and its connections to BORN, a terrorist group responsible for a series of high-profile killings. When security forces captured the ringleader of BORN, they precipitated the destruction of Russkii Obraz, but veterans of the organisation went on to play a prominent role in Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2014.

Rising Islamic Conservatism in Indonesia - Islamic Groups and Identity Politics (Hardcover): Leonard C. Sebastian, Syafiq... Rising Islamic Conservatism in Indonesia - Islamic Groups and Identity Politics (Hardcover)
Leonard C. Sebastian, Syafiq Hasyim, Alexander R. Arifianto
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited volume argues that the rise of Islamic conservatism poses challenges to Indonesia's continued existence as a secular state, with far-reaching implications for the social, cultural and political fortunes of the country. It contributes a model of analysis in the field of Indonesian and Islamic studies on the logic of Islamic conservative activism in Indonesia. This volume presents informative case studies of discourses and expressions of Islamic conservatism expressed by leading mainstream and upcoming Indonesian Islamic groups and interpret them in a nuanced perspective. All volume contributors are Indonesian-based Islamic Studies scholars with in-depth expertise on the Islamic groups they have studied closely for years, if not decades. This book is an up-to-date study addressing contemporary Indonesian politics that should be read by Islamic Studies, Indonesian Studies, and more broadly Southeast Asian Studies specialists. It is also a useful reference for those studying Religion and Politics, and Comparative Politics.

New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe (Paperback): Katharina Bluhm, Mihai Varga New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe (Paperback)
Katharina Bluhm, Mihai Varga
R1,216 Discovery Miles 12 160 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explores the emergence, and in Poland, Hungary, and Russia the coming to power, of politicians and political parties rejecting the consensus around market reforms, democratization, and rule of law that has characterized moves toward an "open society" from the 1990s. It discusses how over the last decade these political actors, together with various think tanks, intellectual circles, and religious actors, have increasingly presented themselves as "conservatives," and outlines how these actors are developing a new local brand of conservatism as a full-fledged ideology that counters the perceived liberal overemphasis on individual rights and freedom, and differs from the ideology of the established, present-day conservative parties of Western Europe. Overall, the book argues that the "renaissance of conservatism" in these countries represents variations on a new, illiberal conservatism that aims to re-establish a strong state sovereignty defining and pursuing a national path of development.

Trump, the Alt-Right and Public Pedagogies of Hate and for Fascism - What is to be Done? (Paperback): Mike Cole Trump, the Alt-Right and Public Pedagogies of Hate and for Fascism - What is to be Done? (Paperback)
Mike Cole
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Trump, the Alt-Right and Public Pedagogies of Hate and for Fascism: What Is To Be Done? uses public pedagogy as a theoretical lens through which to view discourses of hate and for fascism in the era of Trump and to promote an anti-fascist and pro-socialist public pedagogy. It makes the case for re-igniting a rhetoric that goes beyond the undermining of neoliberal capitalism and the promotion of social justice, and re-aligns the left against fascism and for a socialism of the twenty-first century. Beginning with an examination of the history of traditional fascism in the twentieth century, the book looks at the similarities and differences between the Trump regime and traditional Western post-war fascism. Cole goes on to consider the alt-right movement, the reasons for its rise, and the significance of the internet being harnessed as a tool with which to promote a fascistic public pedagogy. Finally, the book examines the resistance against these discourses and addresses the question of: what is to be done? This topical book will be of great interest to scholars, to postgraduate students and to researchers, as well as to advanced undergraduate students in the fields of education studies, pedagogy, and sociology, as well as readers in general who are are interested in the phenomenon of Trumpism.

Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution - Emotions, Power and Legitimacy in the Atlantic Space (Hardcover): Moises... Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution - Emotions, Power and Legitimacy in the Atlantic Space (Hardcover)
Moises Prieto
R3,761 Discovery Miles 37 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the idea of dictatorship changed drastically, leaving back the ancient Roman paradigm and opening the way to a rule with extraordinary powers and which was unlimited in time. While the French Revolution produced an acceleration of history and created new narratives of dictatorship, with Napoleon Bonaparte as its most iconic embodiment, the Latin American struggle for independence witnessed an unprecedented concentration of rulers seeking those new nations' sovereignty through dictatorial rule. Starting from the assumption that the age of revolution was one of dictators too, this book aims at exploring how this new type of rulers whose authority was no longer based on dynastic succession or religious consecration sought legitimacy. By unveiling the role of emotions - hope, fear and nostalgia - in the making of a new paradigm of rule and focusing on the narratives legitimizing and de-legitimizing dictatorship, this study goes beyond traditional conceptual history. For this purpose, different sources such as libels, history treatises, encyclopedias, plays, poems, librettos, but also visual material will be resorted to. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of modern history, the history of emotions, intellectual history, global history, cultural studies and political science.

Postliberal Constitutionalism - The Challenge of Right Wing Populism in Central and Eastern Europe (Hardcover): Adam Sulikowski Postliberal Constitutionalism - The Challenge of Right Wing Populism in Central and Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
Adam Sulikowski
R3,758 Discovery Miles 37 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It addresses recent changes in Central and Eastern Europe in order to critically consider the impact of illiberal conservatism on constitutionalism. This book will appeal to constitutional lawyers, as well as to legal and political theorists with interests in contemporary populism and liberal thought.

Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Europe and Latin America - Crossing Borders (Paperback): Antonio Costa Pinto, Federico... Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Europe and Latin America - Crossing Borders (Paperback)
Antonio Costa Pinto, Federico Finchelstein
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What drove the horizontal spread of authoritarianism and corporatism between Europe and Latin America in the 20th century? What processes of transnational diffusion were in motion and from where to where? In what type of 'critical junctures' were they adopted and why did corporatism largely transcend the cultural background of its origins? What was the role of intellectual-politicians in the process? This book will tackle these issues by adopting a transnational and comparative research design encompassing a wide range of countries.

Anti-Islamic Protest in the UK - Policy Responses to the Far Right (Paperback): William Allchorn Anti-Islamic Protest in the UK - Policy Responses to the Far Right (Paperback)
William Allchorn
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Demonstrations by far-right groups, such as the English Defence League, Britain First and PEGIDA, have caused considerable social and civic unrest in UK cities for nearly a decade. But how should policymakers respond to far-right and anti-Muslim activism? Drawing on extensive primary research with stakeholders, local authorities and policymakers, this book investigates the political, socio-economic and historic trends that fuel this form of political extremism across the UK. It also maps the different types of policy responses available to local politicians, police forces and behind-the-scenes policy officials involved in the day-to-day management of anti-Islamic street protest. The author demonstrates that it is only through developing successful countermeasures in the realm of politics, security and community-based politics that politicians, police and state actors will truly get to grips with this new far-right activism.

Donald Trump v The United States - Inside The Struggle To Stop A President (Paperback): Michael S. Schmidt Donald Trump v The United States - Inside The Struggle To Stop A President (Paperback)
Michael S. Schmidt
R360 R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Save R72 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

With unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter chronicles the clash between a president and the officials of his own government who tried to stop him.

Donald Trump v. The United States tells the dramatic, high-stakes story of those who felt compelled to confront and try to contain the most powerful man in the world as he shredded norms and sought to expand his power. Michael S. Schmidt takes readers inside the defining events of the presidency, chronicles them up close, and records the clash between an increasingly emboldened president and those around him, who find themselves trying to thwart the president they had pledged to serve, unsure whether he is acting in the interest of the country, his ego, his family business, or Russia. Through their eyes and ears, we observe an epic struggle.

Drawing on secret FBI and White House documents and confidential sources inside federal law enforcement and the West Wing, Donald Trump v. The United States is vital journalism from a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter that records the shocking reality of a presidency like no other. It is a riveting contemporary history and a lasting account of just how fragile and vulnerable the institutions of American democracy really are.

A Conspiratorial Life - Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism (Hardcover): Edward... A Conspiratorial Life - Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism (Hardcover)
Edward H. Miller
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Though you may not know his name, Robert Welch (1899-1985)-founder of the John Birch Society-is easily one of the most significant architects of our current political moment. In A Conspiratorial Life, the first biography of Welch, Edward H. Miller delves deep into the life of an overlooked figure whose ideas nevertheless reshaped the American right. A child prodigy who entered college at age 12, Welch became an unlikely candy magnate, founding the company that created Sugar Daddies, Junior Mints, and other famed confections. In 1958, he funneled his wealth into establishing the organization that would define his legacy and change the face of American politics: the John Birch Society. Though the group's paranoiac right-wing nativism was dismissed by conservative thinkers like William F. Buckley, its ideas gradually moved from the far-right fringe into the mainstream. By exploring the development of Welch's political worldview, A Conspiratorial Life shows how the John Birch Society's rabid libertarianism-and its highly effective grassroots networking-became a profound, yet often ignored or derided influence on the modern Republican Party. Miller convincingly connects the accusatory conservatism of the midcentury John Birch Society to the inflammatory rhetoric of the Tea Party, the Trump administration, Q, and more. As this book makes clear, whether or not you know his name or what he accomplished, it's hard to deny that we're living in Robert Welch's America.

The Gutfeld Monologues - Classic Rants from the Five (Paperback, Annotated edition): Greg Gutfeld The Gutfeld Monologues - Classic Rants from the Five (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Greg Gutfeld 1
R443 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
International Populism - The Radical Right in the European Parliament (Paperback): Duncan McDonnell, Annika Werner International Populism - The Radical Right in the European Parliament (Paperback)
Duncan McDonnell, Annika Werner
R965 Discovery Miles 9 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 2014 European Parliament elections were hailed as a 'populist earthquake', with parties like the French Front National, UKIP and the Danish People's Party topping the polls in their respective countries. But what happened afterwards? Based on policy positions, voting data, and interviews conducted over three years with senior figures from fourteen radical right populist parties and their partners, this is the first major study to explain these parties' actions and alliances in the European Parliament. International Populism answers three key questions: why have radical right populists, unlike other ideological party types, long been divided in the Parliament? Why, although divisions persist, are many of them now more united than ever? And how does all this inform our understanding of the European populist radical right today? Arguing that these parties have entered a new international and transnational phase, with some trying to be 'respectable radicals' while others embrace their shared populism, McDonnell and Werner shed new light on the past, present and future of one of the most important political phenomena of twenty-first-century Europe.

Right Across the World - The Global Networking of the Far-Right and the Left Response (Paperback): John Feffer Right Across the World - The Global Networking of the Far-Right and the Left Response (Paperback)
John Feffer
R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'John Feffer is our 21st-century Jack London' - Mike Davis In a post-Trump world, the right is still very much in power. Significantly more than half the world's population currently lives under some form of right-wing populist or authoritarian rule. Today's autocrats are, at first glance, a diverse band of brothers. But religious, economic, social and environmental differences aside, there is one thing that unites them - their hatred of the liberal, globalised world. This unity is their strength, and through control of government, civil society and the digital world they are working together across borders to stamp out the left. In comparison, the liberal left commands only a few disconnected islands - Iceland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain and Uruguay. So far they have been on the defensive, campaigning on local issues in their own countries. This narrow focus underestimates the resilience and global connectivity of the right. In this book, John Feffer speaks to the world's leading activists to show how international leftist campaigns must come together if they are to combat the rising tide of the right. A global Green New Deal, progressive trans-European movements, grassroots campaigning on international issues with new and improved language and storytelling are all needed if we are to pull the planet back from the edge of catastrophe. This book is both a warning and an inspiration to activists terrified by the strengthening wall of far-right power.

San Fransicko - Why Progressives Ruin Cities (Hardcover): Michael Shellenberger San Fransicko - Why Progressives Ruin Cities (Hardcover)
Michael Shellenberger
R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America's faltering cities. Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse. Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail and prison. But as homeless encampments spread, and overdose deaths skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to take a closer look at the problem. What he discovered shocked him. The problems had grown worse not despite but because of progressive policies. San Francisco and other West Coast cities - Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland - had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness, drug dealing, and crime to actively enabling them. San Fransicko reveals that the underlying problem isn't a lack of housing or money for social programs. The real problem is an ideology that designates some people, by identity or experience, as victims entitled to destructive behaviors. The result is an undermining of the values that make cities, and civilization itself, possible.

Bamboozled - How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda (Paperback): Angela McGlowan Bamboozled - How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda (Paperback)
Angela McGlowan
R374 R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Save R92 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Which political party gave rise to the Ku Klux Klan?

Which political party opposed extending the vote to women?

Which political party attempted to filibuster and kill the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Which political party in 2007 tapped as President Pro Tempore of the Senate a former Klansman?

(Hint: It wasn't the Republicans.)

"Bamboozled" demolishes once and for all the lies Liberals use to manipulate and exploit Latinos, women, and blacks. Based on a mountain of research and personal interviews with top leaders and insiders, McGlowan dismantles Democrat deceptions and exposes Liberal lies, including:

  • How the Democratic Party erased its racist past and created an illusion of inclusion on Civil Rights
  • The scheme Liberals ran to con minorities into loyally supporting a political party that despises their most deeply felt values
  • Why what's bad for families is great for Liberals
  • How Liberals' love affair with criminal leniency destroys the very communities Liberals claim to protect
  • How Liberal economic policies bankrupt blacks, loot Latinos, and wreck women's wallets

Unveiling the Left's racist past and exploitative present, McGlowan points all Americans toward a bamboozle-free future.

Alt-Finance - How the City of London Bought Democracy (Paperback): Marlene Benquet, Theo Bourgeron Alt-Finance - How the City of London Bought Democracy (Paperback)
Marlene Benquet, Theo Bourgeron; Translated by Meg Morley, Theo Bourgeron
R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Powerful financial forces have supported the neoliberal project since the 1980s to advance their interests; but there are now signs that these forces have a new face and a new strategy. The majority of the British finance sector threw its support behind Britain leaving the European Union, a flagship institution of neoliberalism. Beyond this counterintuitive move, what was really happening and why? Alt-Finance examines a new authoritarian turn in financialised democracies, focusing on the City of London, revealing a dangerous alternative political project in the making. In a clash with traditional finance, the new behemoths of financial capital - hedge funds, private equity firms and real estate funds - have started to cohere around a set of political beliefs, promoting libertarian, authoritarian, climate-denying and Eurosceptic views. Protecting investments, supressing social dissent and reducing state interference are at the core of their mission for a new world order. By following the money, the authors provide indisputable evidence of these worrying developments. Through a clear analysis of the international dealings of this new authoritarian-libertarian regime, not just in Britain but in the US and Brazil, we can understand how our world is being shaped against our will by struggles between dominant groups.

The Iron Triangle - Inside the Liberal Democrat Plan to Use Race to Divide Christians and America in their Quest for Power and... The Iron Triangle - Inside the Liberal Democrat Plan to Use Race to Divide Christians and America in their Quest for Power and How We Can Defeat Them (Paperback)
Vince Everett Ellison
R690 R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Save R90 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The New Authoritarians - Convergence on the Right (Hardcover): David Renton The New Authoritarians - Convergence on the Right (Hardcover)
David Renton
R2,182 R2,044 Discovery Miles 20 440 Save R138 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

All across the world, right-wing politics is shifting, with conservative and hard-right proponents allying. From Donald Trump to Marine Le Pen, these figureheads agree on issues that would have been considered extreme to previous generations, causing many to label them as fascists. But is this too simplistic? If they are not fascists, what are their politics? In The New Authoritarians, David Renton approaches the problem from a new perspective. He identifies an emergent and deeply troubling form of right-wing radicalism, at once more moderate than classical fascism in its political strategy, yet indulgent of the racism of its most extreme components. In country after country, under the clouds of economic austerity and post-9/11 Islamophobia, the right is converging and strengthening. To understand why is the first step to stopping them.

The Extreme Right in Interwar France - The Faisceau and the Croix de Feu (Paperback): Samuel Kalman The Extreme Right in Interwar France - The Faisceau and the Croix de Feu (Paperback)
Samuel Kalman
R1,421 Discovery Miles 14 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Historians of the French extreme right frequently denote the existence of a strong xenophobic and nationalist tradition dating from the 1880s, a perpetual anti-republicanism which pervaded twentieth-century political discourse. Much attention is habitually paid to the interwar era, deemed the zenith of this success, when the leagues attracted hundreds of thousands of members and enjoyed significant political acclaim. Most works on the subject speak of 'the French right' or 'French fascism', presenting compendia of figures and organizations, from the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s through the notorious Vichy regime, the authoritarian construct which emerged following the defeat to Nazi Germany in June 1940. However, historians rarely discuss the programmatic elements of extreme right-wing doctrine, which demanded the eradication of parliamentary democracy and the transformation of the nation and state according to group principles. Instead, most detail the organization and membership of various organizations, and often recount their quotidian activities as political actors within (and in opposition to) the Third Republic. This book offers a new interpretation of the extreme right in interwar French politics, focusing upon the largest and most influential such groups in 1920s and 1930s, the Faisceau and the Croix de Feu. It explores their designs for extensive political, economic, and social renewal, a project that commanded significant attention from the leadership and rank-and-file of both organizations, providing the overarching goal behind their aspiration to power. The book examines five components of these efforts: A renewal of politics and government, the establishment of a new economic order, a revaluation of gender and familial relations, the role of youth in the new socio-political construct, and the politics of exclusion inherent in every facet of Faisceau and CDF doctrine. In so doing it contributes to a historical understanding of the programmatic elements of the interwar extreme-right, while simultaneously situating its most prominent exponents within their broader historical context.

The Rise of the Republican Right - From Goldwater to Reagan (Paperback): Brian M. Conley The Rise of the Republican Right - From Goldwater to Reagan (Paperback)
Brian M. Conley
R1,165 Discovery Miles 11 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Few scholars have paid close attention to the factors internal to the Republican Party that helped the Right to consolidate its power within the party between the 1960s and the 1980s. Plugging the gap in party literature, The Rise of the Republican Right: From Goldwater to Reagan provides a comprehensive account of the rise of the Republican Right in the years between Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential defeat and the election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980. Specifically, it offers a historical-institutional analysis of the organizational factors internal to the Republican Party that helped the conservative Right maintain, and then expand its ascendant position within the GOP in the critical years between Goldwater and Reagan. Brian M. Conley demonstrates how the growth of the Right during this period was aided by a desire on the part of many Republican leaders to rebound from electoral defeat by rebuilding the party organizationally, rather than reforming it politically, through the introduction of a more "service" -oriented party structure. The Rise of the Republican Right will interest academics, party scholars, and researchers eager to gain a more nuanced understanding of the factors that helped the Right become a dominant force within the Republican Party.

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