Reflections on the Extreme Right in Western Europe, 1990–2008

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Preface Notes on presentation Applied abbreviations of frequently cited newspapers First-publication and permission details of each chapter Introductory essay 1. What goes around comes around: A critical review of some major contemporary attempts to account for extreme-right racist politics in western Europe Country case studies 2. France: The support for the Front National: Analyses and findings 3. Federal Republic of Germany: Militant neo-Nazism in the 1990s 4. The state’s response to far-right extremism: The case of Die Republikaner and the German national and regional authorities 5. The Netherlands: Irritants on the body politic 6. Belgium: Flemish legions on the march 7. Switzerland: Right-wing and xenophobic parties, from the margin to the mainstream? 8. Great Britain: Selective legislative and political strategies against the extreme right, 2000–2008 Comparative studies 9. Aggregate-data analyses of urban racist voting: Methodological limitations, lessons, and experiences from France, the Netherlands, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Switzerland 10. Support for right-wing extremism in western Europe: An examination of the ‘wave hypothesis’ on the basis of time series of polling results in five countries Appendix: List of parties and institutions with abbreviations and translated titles Index