Description
| Product ID: | 9781108400350 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Organizing Against Democracy |
| Subtitle: | The Local Organizational Development of Far Right Parties in Greece and Europe |
| Authors: | Author: Antonis A. Ellinas |
| Page Count: | 296 |
| Subjects: | Politics and government, Politics & government, Comparative politics, Comparative politics |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Organizing Against Democracy illuminates answers to the question of how far-right parties try to establish roots in democratic societies. Ellinas examines the local organizational 'lives' of three of the most extreme parties in Europe and the responses of democratic actors against them. Organizing Against Democracy investigates some of the most important challenges modern democracies face, filling a distinctive gap in the literature, both empirically and theoretically. Ellinas examines the attempts of three of the most extreme European far-right parties to establish roots in local societies, and the responses of democratic actors. He offers a theory of local party development to analyze the many factors affecting the evolution of far-right parties at the subnational level. Using extraordinarily rich data, the author examines the ''lives'' of local far-right party organizations in Greece, Germany and Slovakia, studying thousands of party activities and interviewing dozens of party leaders and functionaries, and antifascists. He goes on to explore how and why extreme parties succeed in some local settings while, in others, they fail. This book broadens our understanding of right-wing extremism, illuminating the factors limiting its corrosiveness. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-03-03 |
