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The Extreme Right in Western Europe
Assessment
- I expect you to come to class well prepared. If you don't read the assigned texts, participation is pointless.
- Even with a medical certificate, you may miss a maximum of two classes.
- Assessment is based on your essay (5000-6000 words). Moreover, you must pass the class test. Your essay title/topic must be chosen from this list (PDF).
- Your essay is due on August 2. There is only one deadline, and no extensions will be granted. Please send your essays by mail (leaving enough time for delivery by the due-date), or hand them in to the Studienbüro. I do not accept email submissions.
- For furthther details, please see the course outline (PDF).
Readings
Outline
Textbooks
- Carter, Elisabeth (2005): The Extreme Right in Western Europe: Success or Failure?, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Hainsworth, Paul (2008): The Extreme Right in Western Europe, New York/London: Routledge.
- Kitschelt, Herbert (1995): The Radical Right in Western Europe, Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press.
- Mudde, Cas (2007): Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Research
A lot of my own research is focused on the Extreme Right in Western Europe.
Bibliography
I maintain an extensive bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe.ReaderPlus
You can find the required readings on the university's "ReaderPlus" repository system. The ReaderPlus number is 6996. The access code will be distributed in the seminar.Required Readings
Anti-Immigration Parties in Denmark and Norway: The Progress Parties and the Danish People's Party. In Shadows Over Europe: The Development and Impact of the Extreme Right in Western Europe, ed. Martin Schain, Aristide Zolberg & Patrick Hossay.
New York: Palgrave pp. 107-136.
Fascism and the Right in Europe, 1919-1945.
Harlow: Pearson.
The Iberian Peninsula and Greece. Retreat from the Radical Right? In The New Politics of the Right. Neo-Populist Parties and Movements in Established Democracies, ed. Hans-Georg Betz & Stefan Immerfall.
New York: St. Martin's Press pp. 157-172.
``A New Winning Formula?: The Programmatic Appeal of the Radical Right.'' Party Politics 13(4):411-435.
URL: http://ppq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/4/411
The Extreme Right in Britain. The Long Road to 'Modernization'. In Western Democracies and the New Extreme Right Challenge, ed. Roger Eatwell & Cas Mudde.
London, New York: Routledge pp. 62-79.
``From Vlaams Blok to Vlaams Belang. The Belgian Far-Right Renames Itself.'' West European Politics 28:493 - 502.
``Angry White Men: Individual and Contextual Predictors of Support for the British National Party.'' Political Studies 58(1):1-25.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2009.00829.x
Exit from the Ghetto: The Italian Far Right in the 1990s. In The Politics of the Extreme Right. From the Margins to the Mainstream, ed. Paul Hainsworth.
London, New York: Pinter pp. 64-86.
``Ireland and immigration: explaining the absence of the far right.'' Patterns of Prejudice 41(2):109-130.
URL: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&doi=10.1080/00313220701265486&magic=crossref||D404A21C5BB053405B1A640AFFD44AE3
The Front National: From Ascendancy to Fragmentation on the French Extreme Right. In The Politics of the Extreme Right. From the Margins to the Mainstream, ed. Paul Hainsworth.
London, New York: Pinter pp. 18-32.
``Switzerland: Right-Wing and Xenophobic Parties, from Margin to Mainstream?'' Parliamentary Affairs 53:501-516.
Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe.
Oxford u.a.: Oxford University Press.
``Austria: A Democracy under Threat from the Freedom Party?'' Parliamentary Affairs 53:426-442.
``The Revival of the Radical Right: The Austrian Parliamentary Election of 2008.'' West European Politics 32(5):1049-1061.
URL: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&doi=10.1080/01402380903065280&magic=crossref||D404A21C5BB053405B1A640AFFD44AE3
``Le Pen's comeback: the 2002 French presidential election.'' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27(2):455-459.
URL: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111%2F1468-2427.00458
Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe.
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
The Netherlands: Explaining the Limited Success of the Extreme Right. In The Politics of the Extreme Right. From the Margins to the Mainstream, ed. Paul Hainsworth.
London, New York: Pinter pp. 144-171.
``''Classic'' Fascism and the New Radical Right in Western Europe: Comparisons and Contrasts.'' Contemporary European History 3:289-313.
Re-inventing the Italian Right. Territorial Politics, Populism and `Post-Fascism'.
Abingdon, New York: Routledge.
``Is Extreme Right-Wing Populism Contagious? Explaining the Emergence of a New Party Family.'' European Journal of Political Research 44:413-437.
``Immigration Sceptics, Xenophobes or Racists? Radical Right-Wing Voting in Six West European Countries.'' European Journal of Political Research 47(6):737-765.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2008.00784.x
``Anti-capitalism in the name of ethno-nationalism: ideological shifts on the German extreme right.'' Patterns of Prejudice 42(3):305-316.
URL: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&doi=10.1080/00313220802204046&magic=crossref||D404A21C5BB053405B1A640AFFD44AE3
``The Extreme Right Utopia in Belgium and France: The Ideology of the Flemish Vlaams Blok and the French Front National.'' West European Politics 24(3):1-22.
``Protest or Mainstream? How the European Anti-Immigrant Parties Developed into two Separate Groups by 1999.'' European Journal of Political Research 42:55-76.
``Why Some Anti-Immigrant Parties Fail and Others Succeed. A Two-Step Model of Aggregate Electoral Support.'' Comparative Political Studies 38:537-573.
``In the Eye of the Beholder: The Perception of the List Pim Fortuyn and the Parliamentary Elections of May 2002.'' Acta Politica 38:69-87.
``Scandinavia: Mixed Success for the Populist Right.'' Parliamentary Affairs 53(3):486-500.