2018
DOI: 10.1080/13569317.2018.1451227
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Right-wing extremism/radicalism: reconstructing the concept

Abstract: Right-wing extremism/radicalism: reconstructing the conceptThis article reconstructs the concept of right-wing extremism/radicalism. Using Mudde's influential 1995 study as a foundation, it first canvasses the recent academic literature to explore how the concept has been described and defined. It suggests that, despite the frequent warnings that we lack an unequivocal definition of this concept, there is actually a high degree of consensus amongst the definitions put forward by different scholars. However, it… Show more

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“…Such rhetoric presents itself as being opposed to classical racism, with no inherent hierarchy of superior and inferior peoples. Such ethnopluralist thought has been hugely influential among populist parties on the right, and has helped these parties achieve considerable mainstream electoral success by disassociating their main ideological draws – opposition to immigration, skepticism of multiculturalism, and defense of traditional culture – from older stigmatized far-right tropes such as biological racism, anti-Semitism, and open xenophobia ( Carter, 2018 ; Elgenius & Rydgren, 2019 ). While many populist parties remain committed to the nation-state framework, the idea of a “Europe of regions” can nevertheless be found throughout the greater European far-right populist ecosystem.…”
Section: Nation City Region: Bordered Territorial Images In Europeamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such rhetoric presents itself as being opposed to classical racism, with no inherent hierarchy of superior and inferior peoples. Such ethnopluralist thought has been hugely influential among populist parties on the right, and has helped these parties achieve considerable mainstream electoral success by disassociating their main ideological draws – opposition to immigration, skepticism of multiculturalism, and defense of traditional culture – from older stigmatized far-right tropes such as biological racism, anti-Semitism, and open xenophobia ( Carter, 2018 ; Elgenius & Rydgren, 2019 ). While many populist parties remain committed to the nation-state framework, the idea of a “Europe of regions” can nevertheless be found throughout the greater European far-right populist ecosystem.…”
Section: Nation City Region: Bordered Territorial Images In Europeamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such rhetoric presents itself as being opposed to classical racism, with no inherent hierarchy of superior and inferior peoples. Ethnopluralist thought has been hugely influential in international right‐wing activism, and has helped many populist parties achieve considerable mainstream electoral success by disassociating their main ideological draws—opposition to immigration, skepticism of multiculturalism, and defense of traditional culture—from older stigmatized far‐right tropes such as biological racism, anti‐Semitism, and open xenophobia (Carter, 2018; Elgenius & Rydgren, 2019). Aside from formalized politics, grassroots forms of ethnopluralism can be found in communities such as the Wolves of Vinland, which takes ethnopluralist principles to a logical extreme in a neo‐Pagan cult with chapters across the United States (Southern Poverty Law Center, 2017).…”
Section: Vulgates Of Territory: Hyper‐bordered and Feminized Variatiomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Carter, who has systematically compared many of the most influential definitions of the concept of right-wing extremism, argues that despite 'the frequent warnings that we lack an unequivocal definition of this concept, there is actually a high degree of consensus amongst the definitions put forward by different scholars'. 5 Her analysis concludes that a minimal definition of right-wing extremism is 'an ideology that encompasses authoritarianism, anti-democracy and exclusionary and/or holistic nationalism'. 6 The groups we have studied largely fit with this definition; however, we have chosen the broader concept of the 'far right' since it is not entirely clear that, for example, the Norwegian Pegida is antidemocratic.…”
Section: From Neo-nazism To Anti-islamismmentioning
confidence: 99%