Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
About the Book Series
This series covers academic studies within the broad fields of ‘extremism’ and ‘democracy’, with volumes focusing on adjacent concepts such as populism, radicalism, and ideological/religious fundamentalism. These topics have been considered largely in isolation by scholars interested in the study of political parties, elections, social movements, activism, and radicalisation in democratic settings. A key focus of the series, therefore, is the (inter-)relation between extremism, radicalism, populism, fundamentalism, and democracy. Since its establishment in 1999, the series has encompassed both influential contributions to the discipline and informative accounts for public debate. Works will seek to problematise the role of extremism, broadly defined, within an ever-globalising world, and/or the way social and political actors can respond to these challenges without undermining democratic credentials.
Populist Parties and Democratic Resilience: A Cross-National Analysis of Populist Parties’ Impact on Democratic Pluralism in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Ben Crum, Alvaro Oleart
February 02, 2023
Populist Parties and Democratic Resilience focuses on populist parties as the main agents of populism and examines when these parties turn anti-democratic and when they remain loyal to the democratic system. Following the Brexit referendum, the election of Donald Trump, and the rise of populist ...
The Battle Over Working-Class Voters: How Social Democracy has Responded to the Populist Radical Right in the Nordic Countries
1st Edition
By Sanna Salo, Jens Rydgren
January 09, 2023
This book examines how social democratic parties have responded to populist radical right parties in the battle for support from working-class voters. It focuses on the paradigmatic examples of social democratic parties in the Nordic countries. Historically these have been the strongest social ...
The Success and Failure of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Benelux Countries
1st Edition
By Léonie de Jonge
January 09, 2023
This book focuses on the varied support for the populist radical right in the Benelux countries: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Despite many common characteristics, right-wing populist parties have historically been more successful in the Netherlands and Flanders than in Luxembourg and ...
Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to COVID-19
1st Edition
Edited
By Nils Ringe, Lucio Rennó
August 26, 2022
Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals. The responses of some populist leaders have received much ...
Policy Responses to the Radical Right in France and Germany: Public Actors, Policy Frames, and Decision-Making
1st Edition
By Bénédicte Laumond
September 30, 2021
Based on research fieldwork conducted in France and Germany, this study seeks to explain how public actors have taken part in the regulation of the expression of right-wing radicalism.The author compares these two neighbouring countries which have framed the struggle against right-wing radicalism ...
Populism and Collective Memory: Comparing Fascist Legacies in Western Europe
1st Edition
By Luca Manucci
June 30, 2021
Right-wing populism is a global phenomenon that challenges several pillars of liberal democracy, and it is often described as a dangerous political ideology because it resonates with the fascist idea of power in terms of anti-pluralism and lack of minorities’ protection. In Western Europe, many ...
VOX: The Rise of the Spanish Populist Radical Right
1st Edition
By José Rama, Lisa Zanotti, Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte, Andrés Santana
June 15, 2021
This book examines VOX, the first major and electorally successful populist radical right-wing party to emerge in Spain since the death of General Franco, and the restoration of parliamentary democracy in the late 1970s. In December 2018, VOX, a new party on the populist radical right, entered the ...
Militant Democracy: The Limits of Democratic Tolerance
1st Edition
By Bastiaan Rijpkema
April 27, 2021
This book aims to present a comprehensive theory of militant democracy and to answer questions such as: How can a democracy protect itself against its own downfall? And when is intervention against antidemocrats justified? Against the backdrop of historical and current examples, this book examines ...
Populism and New Patterns of Political Competition in Western Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniele Albertazzi, Davide Vampa
January 14, 2021
This book analyses how party competition has adjusted to the success of populism in Western Europe, whether this is non-populists dealing with their populist competitors, or populists interacting with each other. The volume focuses on Western Europe in the period 2007–2018 and considers both ...
Anti-System Parties: From Parliamentary Breakthrough to Government
1st Edition
By Mattia Zulianello
December 18, 2020
This book adopts an innovative conceptualization and analytical framework to the study of anti-system parties, and represents the first monograph ever published on the topic. It features empirical research using original data and combining large-N QCA analyses with a wide range of in-depth case ...
Extremism, Free Speech and Counter-Terrorism Law and Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Cram
December 18, 2020
This edited collection addresses a number of free speech vs security concerns that are engaged by counter-terrorism law and policy makers across a number of liberal democracies, and explores the delicate balance between free speech and the censoring of views that promote hatred ...
The Prevent Strategy and Right-wing Extremism: A Case Study of the English Defence League
1st Edition
By Craig J.J. McCann
December 18, 2020
In 2011 the U.K. Government reviewed its counter terrorism Prevent Strategy to include "all forms of extremism" with an emphasis on right-wing extremism. This book - written by the former Head of Strategy and Policy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Prevent - provides the most ...