Democracy in Peril?

Bibliographic Data

ID23720117
AuthorsPatrick Hossay, Aristide R Zolberg, Aristide Zolberg
Year2002
Pages301-313
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueShadows over Europe (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230109186_13
OpenAlexW2503706203
ISBN9780230109186
LanguageEN
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The alarm bells are ringing. Journalists, policymakers, and many researchers have warned of the grave threat to democracy posed by the electoral rise of extreme right parties. Either implicitly or explicitly, pundits and partisans indiscriminately weave a coarse historical comparison and warn of the fundamental threat to the principles and practice of liberal governance presented by the rise of the extreme right. Throughout Europe, the extreme right’s relentless scapegoating of outsiders evokes ominous echoes of horrors that are readily exhumed from the archives of collective memory. In this perspective, non- European immigrants are today’s Jews blamed for every ill that plagues European societies, from urban violence to unemployment and including AIDS, much as Jews were once regarded as the source of ravaging epidemics of cholera, typhus, and tuberculosis. Reinforcing the association, the most brutal of today’s immigrant-bashers often proudly sport the badges of yesterday’s Jew-destroyers, while the more respectable mutter about the need to save “the West” from invasion. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Criminology · Democracy · Extreme right · Immigration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scapegoating · Sociology · Yesterday · Global Security and Public Health · History · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Socio-political and Technological Issues

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