Right-wing populism in Europe : politics and discourse /
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Dynamics of Discourse and Politics in Right-wing Populism in Europe and Beyond: An Introduction; Outline of the book; Section I Theories and Comparative Approaches; 1 Right-Wing Populism:; Historical roots, theoretical implications; The consequences of conceptual ambivalence; Populism and party typology; A typology of contemporary right-wing parties; How to deal with right-wing populism?; 2 'Anything Goes!'
- The Haiderization of Europe; 'We' and 'the people'
- Constructing a 'politics of fear'Calculated ambivalence and discursive provocation; 3 Loud Values, Muffled Interests:; The position of Frp voters in a two-dimensional social space; Confusing patterns of political attitudes?; A new top-level consensus in party politics; The salience of value politics on Election Day; The Third Way and right-wing populism; 4 Breaking Taboos and 'Mainstreaming the Extreme':; Introduction: How (bad) ideas spread; Far-right 'contagion'?; Restricting Islamic religious freedoms: Three 'landmark' events; The poverty of the mainstream
- 5 Mosques, Minarets, Burqas and Other Essential Threats:The Swiss ban on minarets; In defence of Western civilization against Islamization; Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and the populist Right's commitment to the state of Israel; Anti-Islamic mobilization and the populist Right; 6 Hate Across the Waters:; The West's anti-Muslim network; Hardcore racists; The West's white nationalist network; Conclusion; Section II Case Studies
- Western Europe; 7 Ploughing the Same Furrow? Continuity and Change on Britain's Extreme-Right Fringe; BNP ideology: Surface and depth; British National Party members
- BNP: Political associatesBNP: Ambivalent and open anti-Semitism; The English Defence League; Conclusion; 8 Contemporary Forms of Racist Movements and Mobilization in Britain; Situating racist and extreme right-wing movements; From the NF to the BNP; Evolving forms of racial populism; The past and the present; Countering or accommodating racism?; Conclusion; 9 From Anti-Immigration and Nationalist Revisionism to Islamophobia:; Introduction; Theoretical background; Methodology and categories of analysis; Exploring the context
- FPÖ politics and rhetoric in late 1990s and early 2000s: The Haider eraThe FPÖ since 2005: The Strache years; Conclusions; 10 Developments within the Radical Right in Germany: Discourses, Attitudes and Actors; Public discourse and attitudes; The radical right; Special situation in Germany?; Is the radical right changing?; Conclusion; 11 Italian Populism and the Trajectories of Two Leaders: Silvio Berlusconi and Umberto Bossi; Populism in Italy; A country of competing populism; 12 Explaining the Rise of the Front National to Electoral Prominence:
- Introduction: Contradictory accounts of the Front National's electoral potential