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Research on Democracy and Society (Hardcover)
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Research on Democracy and Society (Hardcover)
Series: Research in Democracy & Society
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Volume three concerns political action on the margins of
conventional political participation in a democracy: extremist,
protest, and social movements. This theme covers a huge spectrum,
ranging from pro-democracy movements in authoritarian regimes to
anti-democratic extremist. The volume is organised in four
sections: first, a theoretical paper linking the social movements
literature to the literature on democratization; second, a series
of comparative studies; third, essays on the United States and
western Europe; and finally, a set of studies of successful or
failed democratic transition in Yugoslavia, South Africa and the
Philippines. The first section presents an ambitious synthesis of
social movement theories with the 'political interactionist'
theories of democratization associated with Guillermo O'Donnell,
Philippe Schmitter, Adam Przeworski and others. The second section
contains comparative studies, examining whether recent right-wing
extremist voting in western Europe represents a real shift to the
right. Two dimensions of nationalism in eastern Europe are examined
and another chapter looks at two contextual factors affecting
political protest in western democracies: mobilization by
collective organizations and national political and socioeconomic
conditions. Finally Karl-Dieter Opp examines the prospective role
of political protest in the European unification process. Four
papers pursue the analysis of contemporary far right in France,
Germany and Austria. What are the characteristics of French
National Front voters? Focus is also placed on right-wing violence
in unified Germany and racism and anti-semitism in Austria. Two
potential threats to democracy are studied: Basque terrorism and
nazism in interwar Germany. Finally in this, there is an
examination of the rise to power of the Nazy Party in Germany.
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