The Radical Right in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

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ID20006657
AuthorsUwe Backes (0000-0001-7511-3833, Technische Universität Dresden, corresponding author)
EditorsJens Rydgren
Year2018
Publication date2018-02-05
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274559.013.23
OpenAlexW2791126774
ISBN9780190274559
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This chapter analyzes and compares political developments in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It highlights the common ground between groups on the right-wing fringe of each country’s party system. To an extent the differences between the way right-wing groups developed in each of these countries is due to the different histories of the respective states. Recently however, they have moved closer to each other in the face of very similar problems. To a degree Switzerland is a special case because of its multilingual cantons and the early development of a pluralist civic culture that sustains an extraordinarily dynamic democratic constitutional state. This is particularly true given the autocratic relapses toward right-wing politics in neighboring German-speaking countries

Autocracy · Democracy · Face (sociological concept) · Geography · German · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Radical right · Right wing · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · German legal, social, and political studies · Law

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