The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right

Summary:

The resurgence of strong radical right-wing parties and movements constitutes one of the most significant political changes in democratic states during the past several decades, particularly in Europe. The radical right's comeback has notably attracted interest from political scientists, sociologists, and historians, although the majority of past research focuses on party and electoral politics.

In contrast, this Handbook not only covers existing literature, but also shows how the radical right forms movements rather than parties. Editor Jens Rydren has gathered an international cast of contributors to cover concepts and definitions; ideologies and discourses; and a range of contemporary issues such as religion, globalization, gender, and activism. Further, this volume is one of few to provide a number of cases focusing on areas outside of Europe, including Russia, the US, Australia, Israel, and Japan.

By integrating various strands of scholarship on the radical right that covers different regions and different research perspectives, this Handbook provides an authoritative and state of the art overview of the topic and will set the agenda for scholarship on the radical right for years to come.

Table of contents:

1. The radical right: an introduction | Jens Rydgren

Part I: Ideology and Discourse
2. The radical right and nationalism | Tamir Bar-On
3. The radical right and Islamophobia | Aristotle Kallis
4. The radical right and antisemitism | Ruth Wodak
5. The radical right and populism | Hans-Georg Betz
6. The radical right and fascism | Nigel Copsey
7. The radical right and Euroscepticism | Sofia Vasilopoulou

Part II: Issues
8. Explaining electoral support for the radical right | Kai Arzheimer
9. Party systems and radical right-wing parties | Herbert Kitschelt
10. Gender and the radical right | Hilde Coffé
11. Globalization, cleavages, and the radical right | Simon Bornschier
12. Party organization and the radical right | David Art
13. Charisma and the radical right | Roger Eatwell
14. Media and the radical right | Antonis A. Ellinas
15. The non-party sector of the radical right | John Veugelers, Gabriel Menard
16. The political impact of the radical right | Michelle Hale Williams
17. The radical right as social movement organizations | Manuela Caiani, Donatella Della Porta
18. Youth and the radical right | Cynthia Miller Idriss
19. Religion and the radical right | Michael Minkenberg
20. Radical right cross-national links and international cooperation | Manuela Caiani
21. Political violence and the radical right | Leonard Weinberg, Eliot Assoudeh

Part III: Case Studies
22. The radical right in France | Nonna Mayer
23. The radical right in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland | Uwe Backes
24. The radical right in Belgium and the Netherlands | Joop J.M. van Holsteyn
25. The radical right in Southern Europe | Carlo Ruzza
26. The radical right in the United Kingdom | Matthew J. Goodwin, James Dennison
27. The radical right in the Nordic countries | Anders Widfeldt
28. The radical right in Eastern Europe | Lenka Bustíková
29. The radical right in post-Soviet Russia | Richard Arnold, Andreas Umland
30. The radical right in post-Soviet Ukraine | Melanie Mierzejewski-Voznyak
31. The radical right in the United States of America | Christopher Sebastian Parker
32. The radical right in Australia | Andy Fleming, Aurelien Mondon
33. The radical right in Israel | Arie Perliger, Ami Pedhazur
34. The radical right in Japan | Naoto Higuchi