Jens Rydgren - The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right

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Names: Rydgren, Jens, editor.

Title: The Oxford handbook of the radical right / [edited by] Jens Rydgren.

Description: New York City : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Identifiers: LCCN 2017025436| ISBN 9780190274559 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780190274566 (updf) | ISBN 9780190644185 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: RadicalismCase studies. | ConservatismCase studies. | Right and left (Political science)

Classification: LCC HN49.R33 O94 2018 | DDC 303.48/4dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017025436

JENS RYDGREN

TAMIR BAR-ON

ARISTOTLE KALLIS

RUTH WODAK

HANS-GEORG BETZ

NIGEL COPSEY

SOFIA VASILOPOULOU

KAI ARZHEIMER

HERBERT KITSCHELT

HILDE COFF

SIMON BORNSCHIER

DAVID ART

ROGER EATWELL

ANTONIS A. ELLINAS

JOHN VEUGELERS AND GABRIEL MENARD

MICHELLE HALE WILLIAMS

MANUELA CAIANI AND DONATELLA DELLA PORTA

CYNTHIA MILLER-IDRISS

MICHAEL MINKENBERG

MANUELA CAIANI

LEONARD WEINBERG AND ELIOT ASSOUDEH

NONNA MAYER

UWE BACKES

JOOP J. M. VAN HOLSTEYN

CARLO RUZZA

MATTHEW J. GOODWIN AND JAMES DENNISON

ANDERS WIDFELDT

LENKA BUTKOV

RICHARD ARNOLD AND ANDREAS UMLAND

MELANIE MIERZEJEWSKI-VOZNYAK

CHRISTOPHER SEBASTIAN PARKER

ANDY FLEMING AND AURELIEN MONDON

ARIE PERLIGER AND AMI PEDAHZUR

NAOTO HIGUCHI

THIS book would not have come into existence without the generous support of several individuals and institutions. I wish to thank Signe Svallfors at Stockholm University, who assisted in the preparation of the final manuscript. I also wish to thank James Cook at Oxford University Press for the always constructive conversations from proposal to print, and Emily Mackenzie and Shalini Balakrishnan for great cooperation during the pre-production and production stages. Many thanks also to the Swedish Research Council, for funding, and to the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University, for providing an excellent research environment. Lastly, I extend my final thanks to all chapter authors for having contributed cutting-edge pieces to this volume, and for their constructive feedback throughout the project.

Richard Arnold (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio, and most recently the author of Russian Nationalism and Ethnic Violence: Symbolic Violence, Lynching, Pogrom, and Massacre (). His papers have appeared in, among other journals, Theoretical Criminology, Post-Soviet Affairs, Problems of Post-Communism, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, and Nationalities Papers.

David Art is Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. His field is comparative politics, with a regional focus on Europe. His research interests include extremist political parties and movements, the politics of history and memory, and comparative historical analysis in the social sciences. He is the author of Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, German Politics and Society, Party Politics, and West European Politics. He was co-convenor of the European Consortium for Political Researchs Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy.

Kai Arzheimer is Professor of Politics and Political Sociology at the University of Mainz in Germany. He has published widely on the voters of the radical right in Europe, and on voting behavior and political attitudes more generally.

Eliot Assoudeh is currently Adjunct Professor of political science at University of Nevada, Reno, where he received his Ph.D. with a focus in comparative politics in 2017. His research interests are modern ideologies and religion, political extremism, and far-right political parties and movements in Europe, the Middle East and the United States. He is a recipient of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa research grant for his project on fascism and religion in the Middle East (2014, 2015, and 2017). He holds an M.A. in political science from Western Washington University (2010). His articles and analyses have appeared in Religion Compass, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Fair Observer, and National Security Forum, and on the BBC Persian Service.

Uwe Backes is a deputy director at the Hannah Arendt Institute on Totalitarianism Research and teaches political science at the University of Dresden, Germany. He studied political science, history, and German language and literature at the University of Trier (Ph.D., 1987), and completed his post-doctoral dissertation at the University of Bayreuth in 1997. He was a Feodor Lynen Grantee of the Alexander von Humboldt ).

Tamir Bar-On received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 2000. He is a Professor-Researcher in the School of Social Sciences and Government, Tec de Monterrey, Campus Quertaro, Mexico. A member of Mexicos Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, Bar-On is the author of four books, including Where Have All The Fascists Gone? (), and Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen Through the Beautiful Game (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).

Hans-Georg Betz is currently Adjunct Professor of political science at the University of Zurich. Previously he taught at York University, Toronto; the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.; and Koc University, Istanbul. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on political culture, radical right-wing populism, and nativism in Europe and the United States.

Simon Bornschier directs the Research Area Political Sociology at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Zurich. He has authored or coauthored two books on the transformation of West European party systems and the rise of right-wing populist parties, as well as a number of articles and chapters on the subject. His current research focuses on democratization, representation, and political protest in Latin America and Western Europe.