 | Right-Wing Radicalism Today: Perspectives from Europe and the US Subjects: Politics & International Relations; Comparative Politics; European Politics; U.S. Politics; Political Philosophy; Fascism & Nazism; This book highlights recent developments in the radical right providing comparative analysis of current extremist activity in Eastern and Western Europe and the United States. It reveals the growing amount of connections and continuities of rightwing movements and ideologies across national borders. Subjects covered include: Who joins radical right parties and why? Recent developments in parties in Eastern & Western Europe The transatlantic cross-fertilisation of ideological perspectives How the US extreme-right has changed since the emergence of the Tea Party movementThis will be essential reading for all students and scholars within an interest in the contemporary radical right and extremism. Sabine von Mering is Associate Professor of German and Women's and Gender Studies and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, US. Timothy Wyman McCarty is Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US. His research and teaching focuses on political theory, the history of ideas, and literature and politics. |
