Violence and terror and the extreme right

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4087139
AutoresPaul Wilkinson (0000-0001-7456-259X, University of St Andrews, autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen7
Número4
Páginas82-93
Fecha de publicación1995-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTerrorism and Political Violence (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0954-6553 • E-ISSN: 1556-1836
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09546559508427319
OpenAlexW2069976287
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas21

The author begins by examining Sprinzak's theory of ‘split delegitimization’ and finds that although it provides a persuasive account of why some extreme right groups become so radicalized that they perpetrate acts of terrorism and political violence, its major weakness is that it fails to explain the emergence and long‐term survival of mass parties of the extreme right. The article briefly surveys some of these mass parties and finds that there is no clear correlation between the electoral success of extreme‐right mass parties and the level of terrorism and political violence from small extreme‐right groups. However, the evident ambivalence of mass parties of the far right towards violence, and intensification of the propaganda of violence, racisim and xenophobia are clearly conducive to violence and Terrorism and Political Violence

Ambivalence · Criminology · Extreme right · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Sociology · Terrorism · Xenophobia · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social Psychology