Michael Minkenberg - Transforming the Transformation?: The East European Radical Right in the Political Process

Transforming the Transformation?

The book aims to take a closer look at the significance of radical right parties, along with other organizations, in terms of their involvement in the political process of the new democracies.

In particular, the book attempts to highlight (a) the radical rights interaction with other political actors (parties, governments, interest groups) and (b) the effects of such interaction with regard to agenda-setting and/or policies in loaded policy fields (minorities and immigration, law and order, religion, territorial issues, democratization).

The main theme of the book is the role of radical right parties and other actors in political processes, in interaction with other actors (parties) and with a measurable outcome (policies, election results, regime changes) which indicate shifts away from the liberal-democratic order institutionalized in the course of the post-Communist transformation. This is done by looking cross-nationally at particular facets and themes (for example, coalition formation or policy outputs in countries where the radical right has been in governmental office) and by in-depth analysis of country cases.

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as scholars of politics and far-right studies.

Michael Minkenberg is Professor of Comparative Political Science at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.

Routledge studies in extremism and democracy

Series Editors: Roger Eatwell

University of Bath

and

Matthew Goodwin

University of Nottingham

Founding Series Editors: Roger Eatwell

University of Bath

and

Cas Mudde

University of Antwerp-UFSIA

This new series encompasses academic studies within the broad fields of extremism and democracy. These topics have traditionally been considered largely in isolation by academics. A key focus of the series, therefore, is the (inter-) relation between extremism and democracy. Works will seek to answer questions such as to what extent extremist groups pose a major threat to democratic parties, or how democracy can respond to extremism without undermining its own democratic credentials.

The books encompass two strands:

Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy includes books with an introductory and broad focus which are aimed at students and teachers. These books will be available in hardback and paperback. Titles include:

Understanding Terrorism in America

From the Klan to al Qaeda

Christopher Hewitt

Fascism and the Extreme Right

Roger Eatwell

Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Cas Mudde

Political Parties and Terrorist Groups (2nd Edition)

Leonard Weinberg, Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger

The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain

Edited by Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin

New British Fascism

Rise of the British National Party

Matthew Goodwin

The End of Terrorism?

Leonard Weinberg

Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe

From local to transnational

Edited by Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin and Brian Jenkins

Varieties of Right-Wing Extremism in Europe

Edited by Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin and Brian Jenkins

Right-Wing Radicalism Today

Perspectives from Europe and the US

Edited by Sabine von Mering and Timothy Wyman McCarty

Revolt on the Right

Explaining support for the radical right in Britain

Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin

Routledge Research in Extremism and Democracy offers a forum for innovative new research intended for a more specialist readership. These books will be in hardback only. Titles include:

1 Uncivil Society?
Contentious politics in post-Communist Europe
Edited by Petr Kopecky and Cas Mudde

2 Political Parties and Terrorist Groups
Leonard Weinberg and Ami Pedahzur

3 Western Democracies and the New Extreme Right Challenge
Edited by Roger Eatwell and Cas Mudde

4 Confronting Right Wing Extremism and Terrorism in the USA
George Michael

5 Anti-Political Establishment Parties
A comparative analysis
Amir Abedi

6 American Extremism
History, politics and the militia
D.J. Mulloy

7 The Scope of Tolerance
Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press
Raphael Cohen-Almagor

8 Extreme Right Activists in Europe
Through the magnifying glass
Bert Klandermans and Nonna Mayer

9 Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory
Mathew Humphrey

10 Reinventing the Italian Right
Territorial politics, populism and post-Fascism
Carlo Ruzza and Stefano Fella

11 Political Extremes
An investigation into the history of terms and concepts from antiquity to the present
Uwe Backes

12 The Populist Radical Right in Poland
The patriots
Rafal Pankowski

13 Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola
Paul Furlong

14 Radical Left Parties in Europe
Luke March

15 Counterterrorism in Turkey
Policy choices and policy effects toward the Kurdistan workers party (PKK)
Mustafa Cosar nal

16 Class Politics and the Radical Right
Edited by Jens Rydgren

17 Rethinking the French New Right
Alternatives to modernity
Tamir Bar-On

18 Ending Terrorism in Italy
Anna Bull and Philip Cooke

19 Politics of Eugenics
Productionism, population, and national welfare
Alberto Spektorowski and Liza Saban

20 Democratic Extremism in Theory and Practice
Power to the people
Paul Lucardie

21 Populism in Western Europe
Comparing Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands
Teun Pauwels

22 Extreme Right Parties in Scandinavia
Anders Widfeldt

23 Catholicism and Nationalism
Changing nature of party politics
Madalena Meyer Resende

24 Populists in Power
Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell

25 The Politicisation of Migration
Edited by Wouter van der Brug, Gianni DAmato, Joost Berkhout and Didier Ruedin

26 Transforming the Transformation?
The East European radical right in the political process
Edited by Michael Minkenberg

Transforming the Transformation?

The East European radical right in the political process

Edited by Michael Minkenberg

First published 2015
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