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Published in: openDemocracyUKProscribing National Action: has it been effective?
The first British ban on membership of a far right group appears to be working – but the danger is other far right...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?PEGIDA turns 4 – will AfD be among the well-wishers?
Some have spoken out against a rapprochement between the AfD and PEGIDA. The AfD leader in Saxony insists: 'The AfD...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The appeal of populist nationalism in the age of accelerated change
What drives support for the populist, radical right and what do the actors offer their voters? The endangered nation...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Scenes of ‘civil war’? Radical right narratives on Chemnitz
The Chemnitz case shows a Saxon city where the radical right has tried to establish itself for years, with some very...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The truth lies in Chemnitz?
We might see parallels between Rostock ’92 and Chemnitz ’18, but the impact and the political context today are...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Feminism gone bad? Women’s organisations and the hard right in Germany
What kind of campaigning could outweigh the increasing power of implicit and explicit alliances by far-right actors...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The united German extreme right
Chemnitz shows how collaboration across three rightwing sectors is a recipe for disaster, as the extreme right...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Does Sweden's mainstream have to talk to the Sweden Democrats?
With the media on their side, the SD has managed to persuade many unionised women in the health service that it is...
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Published in: HomeThe Sweden Democrats remain deeply unpopular despite making gains
The neo-nationalist and anti-immigrant party could make gains, but may have hit an electoral ceiling.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?No, the racial diversity of a country does not perfectly predict pro-immigrant attitudes
Given the political salience of immigration and how affected we are by our own perceptions of immigration, it is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Hungary and the end of democracy
Hungary has taken its leave of democracy and has transformed itself into a dictatorship.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Sliding towards autocracy
A defining characteristic of this populist form of autocracy is the rejection of diversity and the attack on...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“Do you agree?” Orbán’s dangerous waltz with the radical right
A sentiment shared by many Hungarians worried about the government’s xenophobic campaign is summarized by the poster...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe's thriving xenophobia
The radical right has already moved from the margins to the front stage of national politics. Europe's future...
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Published in: openSecuritySecurity discourses and the radical right
Ruth Wodak launches a series of updates on the rise of the far right and exclusionary discourses in Europe. What...
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Published in: HomeOld and new demagoguery: the rhetoric of exclusion
Right-wing populist parties tend to be anti-multinational and anti-intellectual: they endorse nationalistic,...