1st Edition
Extreme Right Activists in Europe Through the magnifying glass
Since the 1980s, one of the main political changes in Western Europe has been the electoral upsurge of extreme right-wing parties. However, while the electoral support of these movements has been studied extensively, their membership has largely been ignored. This book examines who joins the extreme right and why?
Drawing upon extensive research and featuring contributions from distinguished social psychologists and political scientists, this book provides the most detailed comparative study yet published of the psychology of right-wing extremist activists. Countries discussed include Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Belgium and France.
Contents
Preface
Bert Klandermans and Nonna Mayer
Chapter 1: Right-wing Extremism as a Social Movement
Bert Klandermans and Nonna Mayer
Chapter 2: Links with the Past
Bert Klandermans and Nonna Mayer
Chapter 3: Context, Alliances and Conflict
Bert Klandermans and Nonna Mayer
Chapter 4: Political Demand and Supply
Bert Klandermans and Nonna Mayer
Chapter 5: Writing Life Histories: Interviewing Extreme Right-wing Activists
Team-members
Chapter 6: Italy: The Offspring of Fascism
Patrizia Milesi, Antonello Chirumbolo, and Patrizia Catellani
Chapter 7: France: a Two Centuries Old Galaxy
Valérie Lafont
Chapter 8: Extreme Right-wing Activism in the Flemish Part of Belgium: Manifestation of Racism or Nationalism?
Hans De Witte
Chapter 9: ‘Doing it for Germany’: A Study of Die Republikaner and Junge Freiheit
Ludger Klein and Bernd Simon
Chapter 10: The Netherlands: Stigmatized Outsiders
Bert Klandermans and Annette Linden
Chapter 11: One Root, Different Branches: Identity, Injustice, and Schism
Patrizia Catellani, Patrizia Milesi, and Alberto Crescentini
Chapter 12: Identity in German Right-Wing Extremism: Levels, Functions, and Processes
Ludger Klein and Bernd Simon
Chapter 13: DO Right and Left-wing Extremists HAVE Anything in Common?
Antonio Chirumbolo, Nonna Mayer and Hans De Witte
Chapter 14: Through the Magnifying Glass: The World of Extreme Right Activists
Bert Klandermans and Nonna Mayer
Bibliography
Appendix I: Samples
Appendix II: Interview Scheme
Appendix III: Code Book
List of Tables, Graphs and Figures
Figure 9.1 Left-Right-Scale: Self-placement with regard to political orientation
Figure 11.1 Levels of political identity and their salience in extreme right-wing activists’ discourse as a function of party size.
Figure 12.1 A Typography of Right-Wing Extremist Collective Identity: The Case of the German Republikaner
Graph 13.1
Graph 13.2
Graph 13.3
Graph 13.4
Graph 13.5
Graph 13.6
Table 1.1 Party and voters scores on 10 point left-right scale in 1994
Table 4.1 Electoral and organizational strength of RWE parties
Table 5.1 Interview scheme
Table 5.2 Codebook Summary
Table 7.1 Joining the FN and the MNR (in per cent)
Table 9.1 Factors promoting the accessibility of national frames
Table 13.1 Scores on authoritarian ethnocentrism scale by location on left right scale
Table 13.2 Attitudes towards authority and power by location on left right scale
Table 13.3 Levels of authoritarianism among left (LWE) and rightwing (RWE) extremists
Table 13.4 Scores of LWE and RWE on scales of anti-system and anti-parliamentary attitudes
Table 13.5 Law and order and need for a strong and powerful leader among LWE and RWE
Table 13.6 Scores of LWE and RWE on scales of anti-immigration and racist attitudes
Table 13.7 Scores of LWE and RWE on scales of nationalism and cultural pluralism
Table 13.8 Scores [of LWE and RWE?] on economic attitudes scales
Table 13.9 Scores of LWE and RWE on Social Value Inventory
Table 13.10 Motives for membership of LWE and RWE
Table 13.11 Scores of LWE and RWE on seven attitude scales
Table 13.12 Scores of LWE and RWE on four value orientations
Biography
Bert Klandermans
