Mobilizing on the Extreme Right: Germany, Italy, and the United States

Cover......Page 2
Contents......Page 11
List of Tables......Page 14
List of Figures......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 17
1 The Extreme Right and Social Movement Studies: An Introduction......Page 19
1. Defining the extreme right......Page 22
2. The extreme right as a social and a social science problem......Page 24
3. The extreme right as a social movement......Page 27
4. Framing right-wing concerns......Page 31
5. (Right-wing) repertoires of collective action......Page 34
6. This volume......Page 36
1. Triangulating approaches, sources, and methods......Page 38
2. Frame analysis......Page 41
3. Social network analysis......Page 48
4. Protest event analysis......Page 50
3 The Context of the Extreme Right......Page 54
1. The legal situation......Page 55
2. Institutional allies......Page 57
3. Discursive opportunities......Page 61
4. Opportunity structures......Page 66
5. Issue areas and actors in the discourses of the radical right......Page 67
6. Conclusion......Page 69
1. Introduction......Page 71
2. The structure of the network......Page 75
3. Characteristics of the organizations......Page 86
4. Conclusion......Page 90
1. Introduction......Page 94
2. Political opportunities and action repertoires: country and time......Page 97
3. Organizational characteristics and violence......Page 106
4. Radicalization in action: issues and interactions......Page 112
5. Conclusion......Page 119
1. Identity building in the extreme right: an introduction......Page 121
2. Producing identities in action......Page 125
3. Organizational forms and discourses......Page 128
4. Identity framing......Page 136
5. The ‘us’ for the extreme right......Page 139
6. The protectors......Page 143
7. The victims......Page 145
8. Conclusion......Page 148
1. Introduction......Page 150
2. The mobilization of the extreme right on conservative values: focusing on actors and strategies......Page 152
3. The discourse of the extreme right on conservative values: focusing on God, family, and nation......Page 159
4. Conclusion......Page 163
1. Introduction......Page 166
2. Racism in deeds and discourses......Page 169
3. Immigrants as the problem......Page 175
4. Traditional and new anti-Semitism......Page 178
5. The ‘black’ and ‘white’ opposition......Page 182
6. Racism and the extreme right: some concluding remarks......Page 184
1. Globalization and the extreme right: an introduction......Page 186
2. Extreme right facing globalization......Page 188
3. Economic globalization and its losers......Page 194
4. The invasion of the ‘other’: cultural globalization (and Americanization)......Page 198
5. Political globalization and European integration......Page 200
6. Conclusion......Page 204
1. Introduction......Page 208
2. The ‘people’ in the discourse of the extreme right......Page 210
3. Linking populist and anti-establishment frames......Page 215
4. The ‘American’ variant of populism: blaming domestic politics in the light of international affairs......Page 219
5. Conclusion: the extreme right and the populist paradigm......Page 221
11 The Extreme Right: A Conclusion......Page 223
1. Framing: cognitive work in the extreme right......Page 224
2. Repertoires protest beyond voting and violence......Page 227
3. Networking in the extreme right......Page 228
4. Political and discursive opportunities for the extreme right......Page 229
5. Where do we go from here? Caveats and perspectives......Page 230
Appendix......Page 232
References......Page 246
F......Page 263
N......Page 264
S......Page 265
Z......Page 266