Controversial politics: The extreme right challenge in democratic societies

Abstract

Extreme right parties have been at the centre of scholarly attention since their resurgence in the mid 1980s. And although much has already been written on the revival of the extreme right party family, the scholarly debate on the nature and success of the ‘third wave of right-wing extremism’ (Von Beyme 1988) is still ongoing. Concepts and definitions, explanations for electoral success, integration in party systems and participation in power, and party family composition are the topic of numerous articles and books. It is therefore only natural that a considerable number of PhD students also work in the field of right-wing extremism. The panel ‘Controversial politics: The extreme right challenge in democratic societies’ seeks to accommodate these students. It offers a platform to PhD students working on right-wing extremism in all its form to present their work and discuss it with fellow students with similar interests. The panel welcomes papers that deal with all forms of right-wing extremism (parliamentary and extra parliamentary) in all parts of the world (in post-industrial societies, but also in former communist states). It aims to cover a broad range of issues (e.g. questions of conceptualization, definition, and categorization, explanations for extreme right success), approaches (theoretical approaches vs. empirical research, case studies vs. comparative studies, and quantitative research vs. qualitative research).

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