Hans-Georg Betz
Biographic Data
| ID | 363510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans-Georg Betz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans-Georg |
| FAMILY NAME | Betz |
| SIGNATURE | BETZ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 261 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Rethinking Populism
Nativism then and now
Buchbesprechungen
Facets of nativism: A heuristic exploration
Contemporary radical right-wing populism is an ideational compound of anti-elite populism and nativism, the latter encapsulated in the notion that ‘the own people’ should come first. Like populism, nativism has proven to be a rather elusive concept, particularly when it comes to its relationship to related concepts, such as patriotism, nationalism and particularly racism. Originally developed to analyse anti-immigrant sentiments in the United Sta…
Postindustrial Cleavages and Electoral Change in an Advanced Capitalist Democracy: The Austrian Case
Theories on post-industrialism generally agree that post-industrial societies are characterized first, a shift from the production of manufactured goods to the production of services, and second by a “new centrality” of theoretical knowledge and technical information. In the early 1980s, there were widespread expectations that the “post-industrial revolution” would entail a substantial restructuring of traditional cleavages along a new axis, sepa…
Saving the People: How Populists Hijack Religion. Edited by Nadia Marzouki, Duncan McDonnell, and Olivier Roy, eds
Revisiting Lepanto: The political mobilization against Islam in contemporary Western Europe
In recent years, the place of Islam in Western European society has become a central political issue, particularly on the far right of the ideological spectrum. Parties as diverse as the Schweizerische Volkspartei (SVP), the Lega Nord, the Dansk Folkeparti and the Vlaams Belang have mobilized against the ‘Muslim invasion’, launching campaigns against the building of mosques and minarets, the integration of Muslim immigrants and the recognition of…
La droite populiste en Europe. Extreme et democrate
Contre la mondialisation: Xénophobie, politiques identitaires et populisme d’exclusion en Europe occidentale
Ces dernières années, la droite radicale populiste en Europe de l’Ouest a élaboré une position idéologique plus précise, laquelle est caractérisée par l’évocation du droit à la différence et une défense du particularisme culturel. Ces deux aspects sont employés afin de mobiliser un électorat contre la perception de deux grandes menaces externes à la culture et aux valeurs des sociétés européennes, soit la mondialisation et l’Islam. Par cette idéo…
The Divergent Paths of the FPÖ and the Lega Nord
Since the mid-1980s, political formations espousing a new form of radical populism have made dramatic electoral gains in a number of West European democracies (Betz 1994). Among the politically most successful have been the Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (Austrian Freedom Party, or FPÖ) and the Italian Lega Nord (Northern League, or LN). Within less than a decade, the two parties not only conquered a pivotal position in their respective party s…
Conditions Favouring the Success and Failure of Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Contemporary Democracies
One of the most important political developments in established capitalist democracies during the past two decades has been the mobilisation of popular support for parties on the far right of the political spectrum. The electoral gains of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and Christoph Blocher’s Schweizer Volkspartei in national elections, together with the showing of the Vlaams Blok in the 1999 European elections, suggests that rise of radical ri…
Exclusionary Populism in Austria, Italy, and Switzerland
SINCE THE LATE 1980S, A NEW BREED OF RADICAL right-wing parties and movements has gained considerable political ground in a number of liberal democracies. Several characteristics distinguish them from the more traditional parties: reliance on charismatic leadership; the pursuit of a populist strategy of political marketing with a pronounced consumer (that is, voter) orientation; and an appeal to popular anxieties, prejudices, and resentments. Typ…
Transformation of the German Political Party System: Institutional Crisis or Democratic Renewal
Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism in Europe
Herbert Kitschelt in collaboration with Anthony J. McGann, The Radical Right in Western Europe. A Comparative Analysis (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995), 323 pp., $49.50, ISBN 0-472-10663-5. Peter Merkl and Leonard Weinberg (eds.), The Revival of Right Wing Extremism in the 90s (London: Frank Cass, 1997), 304 pp., £18.50/$24.50, ISBN 0-714-64207-X. Urs Altermatt and Hanspeter Kriesi, L'Extrême droite en Suisse. Organisations et radi…
Radical-Right and Neo-Fascist Political Parties in Western Europe
Far right-wing parties have gained dramatically in many West European countries since the early 1980s.Recent cross-national studies distinguish between neo-fascist parties, which are anti-democratic and anti-capitalist, and radical right-wing parties which combine antiimmigration appeals with pro-capitalist, neo-liberal economic positions, social conservatism, and a basic acceptance of representative democracy.While the former have been stagnant …
The German Model Reconsidered
Germany's rapid economic recovery, its spectacular performance in 1950s and 1960s, and above all relative ease with which economy appeared to overcome adverse effects of global economic shocks of 1970s led many foreign observers to extol virtues of German model.' From this point of view, what Michel Albert has called Rhine model represented a unique, and highly successful, synthesis of capitalism and social democracy whose sense of balance and pr…
Die extreme Rechte in Deutschland. Geschichte--gegenwartige Gefahren-Ursachen-Gegenmassnahmen
The National Front and French Politics: The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen, by Jonathan Marcus
Journal Article The National Front and French Politics: The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen, by Jonathan Marcus Get access The National Front and French Politics: The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen by Jonathan Marcus. New York, New York University Press, 1995. 212 pp. $45.00. Hans-Georg Betz Hans-Georg Betz The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on:…
Fascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter Laqueur ; The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis by Herbert Kitschelt
Voices in a Revolution: The Collapse of East German Communism
Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe
Studies the new West European parties of the radical populist right, arguing that, in distancing themselves from the reactionary politics of the traditional extremist right, these parties have become
The Two Faces of Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe
During the past several years, radical right-wing populist parties have made impressive electoral gains in a growing number of West European countries. Their dramatic surge to political prominence has obscured the fact that these parties hardly form a homogeneous party group. Generally, it is possible to distinguish between neo-liberal and national populist parties. Both types of parties are a response to the profound economic, social, and cultur…
Postmodernism and the New Middle Class
Postmodern politics in Germany: The politics of resentment
The post-modern challenge the transformation of the new Left from green to red post-modern politics and the Greens post-modern anti-modernism the politics of discontent - right-wing radicalism in West Germany the dialectics of post-modern politics the future of post-modern politics
The Greens in West Germany: Organisation and Policy Making
Green parties and movements in advanced industrial societies the Greens in West German society - voters and attitudes Green issues and other parties in search of a new Ostpolitik Green economic policies government or opposition? The case of Hesse Green Party organzation women in the Greens media democracy and policy making in the Green party
Revisiting Lepanto: The political mobilization against Islam in contemporary Western Europe
In recent years, the place of Islam in Western European society has become a central political issue, particularly on the far right of the ideological spectrum. Parties as diverse as the Schweizerische Volkspartei (SVP), the Lega Nord, the Dansk Folkeparti and the Vlaams Belang have mobilized against the ‘Muslim invasion’, launching campaigns against the building of mosques and minarets, the integration of Muslim immigrants and the recognition of…
Facets of nativism: A heuristic exploration
Contemporary radical right-wing populism is an ideational compound of anti-elite populism and nativism, the latter encapsulated in the notion that ‘the own people’ should come first. Like populism, nativism has proven to be a rather elusive concept, particularly when it comes to its relationship to related concepts, such as patriotism, nationalism and particularly racism. Originally developed to analyse anti-immigrant sentiments in the United Sta…
Politics of Resentment: Right-Wing Radicalism in West Germany
During the past several years, a number of West European countries have expenenced a serious challenge from right-wing populist parties. The French National Front, the Vlaams Blok in Belgium, the Swiss Vigilants, Action National, and the Autopartei, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), and the various progressive parties in Scandinavia are among the most prominent examples of a rising tide of often radical right-wing populism which has raised conc…
Exclusionary Populism in Austria, Italy, and Switzerland
SINCE THE LATE 1980S, A NEW BREED OF RADICAL right-wing parties and movements has gained considerable political ground in a number of liberal democracies. Several characteristics distinguish them from the more traditional parties: reliance on charismatic leadership; the pursuit of a populist strategy of political marketing with a pronounced consumer (that is, voter) orientation; and an appeal to popular anxieties, prejudices, and resentments. Typ…
The Two Faces of Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe
During the past several years, radical right-wing populist parties have made impressive electoral gains in a growing number of West European countries. Their dramatic surge to political prominence has obscured the fact that these parties hardly form a homogeneous party group. Generally, it is possible to distinguish between neo-liberal and national populist parties. Both types of parties are a response to the profound economic, social, and cultur…
Radical-Right and Neo-Fascist Political Parties in Western Europe
Far right-wing parties have gained dramatically in many West European countries since the early 1980s.Recent cross-national studies distinguish between neo-fascist parties, which are anti-democratic and anti-capitalist, and radical right-wing parties which combine antiimmigration appeals with pro-capitalist, neo-liberal economic positions, social conservatism, and a basic acceptance of representative democracy.While the former have been stagnant …
Postmodernism and the New Middle Class
La droite populiste en Europe. Extreme et democrate
Value Change and Postmaterialist Politics: The Case of West Germany
The West German Green party has been the first significant predominantly postmaterialist party in Western Europe. Its voters are young, urban, and highly educated. This has led many observers to conclude that the Greens represent the values of an economically secure and affluent “new middle class.” This article challenges the major assumption underlying this view, namely, that high levels of education automatically correspond with material securi…
Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism in Europe
Herbert Kitschelt in collaboration with Anthony J. McGann, The Radical Right in Western Europe. A Comparative Analysis (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995), 323 pp., $49.50, ISBN 0-472-10663-5. Peter Merkl and Leonard Weinberg (eds.), The Revival of Right Wing Extremism in the 90s (London: Frank Cass, 1997), 304 pp., £18.50/$24.50, ISBN 0-714-64207-X. Urs Altermatt and Hanspeter Kriesi, L'Extrême droite en Suisse. Organisations et radi…
Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe
Studies the new West European parties of the radical populist right, arguing that, in distancing themselves from the reactionary politics of the traditional extremist right, these parties have become
Mitteleuropa and Post-Modern European Identity
Contemporary Europe is going through a period of increasingly rapid change. The post-war order, symbolized by Yalta and built on the permanent division of appears to be trembling under the impact of a political and perhaps cultural earthquake with the main epicenter located in the eastern half of Europe. In the long run the most lasting result of this earthquake will probably be the re-emergence of nationalist passions in the Soviet Union, the la…
Fascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter Laqueur ; The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis by Herbert Kitschelt
Deutschlandpolitik on the Margins: On the Evolution of Contemporary New Right Nationalism in the Federal Republic
Hans-Georg Betz, Deutschlandpolitik on the Margins: On the Evolution of Contemporary New Right Nationalism in the Federal Republic, New German Critique, No. 44, Special Issue on the Historikerstreit (Spring - Summer, 1988), pp. 127-157
Sociology
Deutschlandpolitik on the Margins: On the Evolution of Contemporary New Right Nationalism in the Federal Republic
Hans-Georg Betz, Deutschlandpolitik on the Margins: On the Evolution of Contemporary New Right Nationalism in the Federal Republic, New German Critique, No. 44, Special Issue on the Historikerstreit (Spring - Summer, 1988), pp. 127-157
Strange Love? How the Greens Began to Love Nato
Changing boundaries of the political: Essays on the evolving balance between the state and society, public and private in Europe
Changing boundaries of the political: Essays on the evolving balance between the state and society, public and private in Europe." History of European Ideas, 10(3), pp. 379–380
The post-modern challenge: From Marx to Nietzsche in the West German alternative and Green movement
The Greens in West Germany: Organisation and Policy Making
Green parties and movements in advanced industrial societies the Greens in West German society - voters and attitudes Green issues and other parties in search of a new Ostpolitik Green economic policies government or opposition? The case of Hesse Green Party organzation women in the Greens media democracy and policy making in the Green party
Mitteleuropa and Post-Modern European Identity
Contemporary Europe is going through a period of increasingly rapid change. The post-war order, symbolized by Yalta and built on the permanent division of appears to be trembling under the impact of a political and perhaps cultural earthquake with the main epicenter located in the eastern half of Europe. In the long run the most lasting result of this earthquake will probably be the re-emergence of nationalist passions in the Soviet Union, the la…
Politics of Resentment: Right-Wing Radicalism in West Germany
During the past several years, a number of West European countries have expenenced a serious challenge from right-wing populist parties. The French National Front, the Vlaams Blok in Belgium, the Swiss Vigilants, Action National, and the Autopartei, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), and the various progressive parties in Scandinavia are among the most prominent examples of a rising tide of often radical right-wing populism which has raised conc…
Value Change and Postmaterialist Politics: The Case of West Germany
The West German Green party has been the first significant predominantly postmaterialist party in Western Europe. Its voters are young, urban, and highly educated. This has led many observers to conclude that the Greens represent the values of an economically secure and affluent “new middle class.” This article challenges the major assumption underlying this view, namely, that high levels of education automatically correspond with material securi…
Postmodern politics in Germany: The politics of resentment
The post-modern challenge the transformation of the new Left from green to red post-modern politics and the Greens post-modern anti-modernism the politics of discontent - right-wing radicalism in West Germany the dialectics of post-modern politics the future of post-modern politics
Postmodernism and the New Middle Class
The Two Faces of Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe
During the past several years, radical right-wing populist parties have made impressive electoral gains in a growing number of West European countries. Their dramatic surge to political prominence has obscured the fact that these parties hardly form a homogeneous party group. Generally, it is possible to distinguish between neo-liberal and national populist parties. Both types of parties are a response to the profound economic, social, and cultur…
Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe
Studies the new West European parties of the radical populist right, arguing that, in distancing themselves from the reactionary politics of the traditional extremist right, these parties have become
Voices in a Revolution: The Collapse of East German Communism
The German Model Reconsidered
Germany's rapid economic recovery, its spectacular performance in 1950s and 1960s, and above all relative ease with which economy appeared to overcome adverse effects of global economic shocks of 1970s led many foreign observers to extol virtues of German model.' From this point of view, what Michel Albert has called Rhine model represented a unique, and highly successful, synthesis of capitalism and social democracy whose sense of balance and pr…
Die extreme Rechte in Deutschland. Geschichte--gegenwartige Gefahren-Ursachen-Gegenmassnahmen
The National Front and French Politics: The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen, by Jonathan Marcus
Journal Article The National Front and French Politics: The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen, by Jonathan Marcus Get access The National Front and French Politics: The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen by Jonathan Marcus. New York, New York University Press, 1995. 212 pp. $45.00. Hans-Georg Betz Hans-Georg Betz The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on:…
Fascism: Past, Present, Future by Walter Laqueur ; The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis by Herbert Kitschelt
Radical-Right and Neo-Fascist Political Parties in Western Europe
Far right-wing parties have gained dramatically in many West European countries since the early 1980s.Recent cross-national studies distinguish between neo-fascist parties, which are anti-democratic and anti-capitalist, and radical right-wing parties which combine antiimmigration appeals with pro-capitalist, neo-liberal economic positions, social conservatism, and a basic acceptance of representative democracy.While the former have been stagnant …
Transformation of the German Political Party System: Institutional Crisis or Democratic Renewal
Contemporary Right-Wing Radicalism in Europe
Herbert Kitschelt in collaboration with Anthony J. McGann, The Radical Right in Western Europe. A Comparative Analysis (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995), 323 pp., $49.50, ISBN 0-472-10663-5. Peter Merkl and Leonard Weinberg (eds.), The Revival of Right Wing Extremism in the 90s (London: Frank Cass, 1997), 304 pp., £18.50/$24.50, ISBN 0-714-64207-X. Urs Altermatt and Hanspeter Kriesi, L'Extrême droite en Suisse. Organisations et radi…
Exclusionary Populism in Austria, Italy, and Switzerland
SINCE THE LATE 1980S, A NEW BREED OF RADICAL right-wing parties and movements has gained considerable political ground in a number of liberal democracies. Several characteristics distinguish them from the more traditional parties: reliance on charismatic leadership; the pursuit of a populist strategy of political marketing with a pronounced consumer (that is, voter) orientation; and an appeal to popular anxieties, prejudices, and resentments. Typ…
The Divergent Paths of the FPÖ and the Lega Nord
Since the mid-1980s, political formations espousing a new form of radical populism have made dramatic electoral gains in a number of West European democracies (Betz 1994). Among the politically most successful have been the Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (Austrian Freedom Party, or FPÖ) and the Italian Lega Nord (Northern League, or LN). Within less than a decade, the two parties not only conquered a pivotal position in their respective party s…
Conditions Favouring the Success and Failure of Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Contemporary Democracies
One of the most important political developments in established capitalist democracies during the past two decades has been the mobilisation of popular support for parties on the far right of the political spectrum. The electoral gains of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and Christoph Blocher’s Schweizer Volkspartei in national elections, together with the showing of the Vlaams Blok in the 1999 European elections, suggests that rise of radical ri…
Contre la mondialisation: Xénophobie, politiques identitaires et populisme d’exclusion en Europe occidentale
Ces dernières années, la droite radicale populiste en Europe de l’Ouest a élaboré une position idéologique plus précise, laquelle est caractérisée par l’évocation du droit à la différence et une défense du particularisme culturel. Ces deux aspects sont employés afin de mobiliser un électorat contre la perception de deux grandes menaces externes à la culture et aux valeurs des sociétés européennes, soit la mondialisation et l’Islam. Par cette idéo…
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