Political Extremism

VOLUME ONE: EXTREMISM AND DEMOCRACY: CONCEPT, THEORIES AND RESPONSES PART ONE: CONCEPTS Meaning and Forms of Political Present in Past and Present - Uwe Backes The Crippled Epistemology of Extremism - Russell Hardin The Problem of Extremism - Ronald Wintrobe PART TWO: THEORIES Mass Society and Extremist Politics - Joseph Gusfield Fascism - Seymour Martin Lipset Left, Right and Center Political Extremism - Robert Smith Left, Center and Right Pathways to Extremism - Manus Midlarsky Extremist Parties and Political Turmoil - G. Bingham Powell Jr. Two Puzzles Status Consistency and Right-Wing Extremism - Gary Rush Ten Theories of the Extreme Right - Roger Eatwell The Populist Radical Right - Cas Mudde A Pathological Normalcy PART THREE: RESPONSES Electoral Regimes and the Proscription of Anti-Democratic Parties - John Finn Free Speech and Political Extremism - Carl Cohen How Nasty Are We Free to Be? Defending Democracy - Stefan Rummens and Koen Abts The Concentric Containment of Political Extremism VOLUME TWO: HISTORICAL EXTREMISM PART ONE: TOTALITARIANISM The Totalitarian Movement - Hannah Arendt The General Characteristics of Totalitarian Dictatorship - Carl Joachim Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski Towards a Comparative Politics of Movement-Regimes - Robert Tucker PART TWO: FASCISM AND NAZISM Introduction - Zeev Sternhell, Mario Sznayder and Maia Asheri Fascism as an Alternative Political Culture Comparing Fascist Movements - Peter Merkl Political Space and Fascism as a Late-Comer - Juan Linz Conditions Conducive to the Success or Failure of Fascism as a Mass Movement in Inter-War Europe Towards a New Model of Generic Fascism - Roger Eatwell Who, Indeed, Did Vote for Hitler? - Thomas Childers Fascism, National Socialism and Conservatives in Europe, 1914-1945 - Carl Levy Issues for Comparativists PART THREE: COMMUNISM Did the Russian Revolution Have to Happen? - Richard Pipes The Antecedent and Prototypes of the System - Janos Kornai Was Stalin Really Necessary? - Alec Nove The Stalinist Experience in Eastern Europe - George Schoepflin The Comparative Study of Communist Political Systems - Alfred Meyer Soviet Neo-Traditionalism - Ken Jowitt The Political Corruption of a Leninist Regime What Was Communism? A Retrospective in Comparative Analysis - Andrew Janos VOLUME THREE: RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM PART ONE: POST-WAR EXTREME RIGHT POLITICAL ACTORS Caught in Its Own Net - Roger Griffin Post-War Fascism outside Europe 'Classic' Fascism and the New Radical Right in Western Europe - Diethelm Prowe Comparisons and Contrasts The Radical Right - Seymour Martin Lipset A Problem for American Democracy? Right-Wing Extremism in Post-War Europe - Klaus von Beyme Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe - Cas Mudde The Ideological Shift on the Russian Radical Right - Mariene Laruelle From Demonizing the West to Fear of Migrants Conservative and Right-Wing Movements - Kathleen Blee and Kimberly Creasap PART TWO: EXPLANATIONS The Silent Counter-Revolution - Piero Ignazi Hypotheses on the Emergence of Extreme Right-Wing Parties in Europe The Contemporary Radical Right - Herbert Kitschelt (in collaboration with A.J. McGann) An Interpretative and Explanatory Framework Is Extreme Right-Wing Populism Contagious? Explaining the Emergence of a New Party Family - Jens Rydgren Explaining the Rise of Racist and Extreme Right Violence in Western Europe - Ruud Koopmans Grievances or Opportunities? Electoral Sociology - Kai Arzheimer Who Votes for the Extreme Right and Why - and When? The Sociology of the Radical Right - Jens Rydgren The Radical Right in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe - Michael Minkenberg Comparative Observations and Interpretations PART THREE: CONSEQUENCES Against the System - Hans-Georg Betz Radical Right-Wing Populism's Challenge to Liberal Democracy Reacting to the Radical Right - David Art Lessons from Germany and Austria The Defending Democracy and the Extreme Right - Ami Pedahzur A Comparative Analysis Three Decades of Populist Radical Right Parties in Western Europe - Cas Mudde So What? VOLUME FOUR: LEFT-WING EXTREMISM PART ONE: RADICAL LEFT PARTIES IN EUROPE What's Left of the Radical Left? The European Radical Left since 1989 - Luke March and Cas Mudde Decline and Mutation 'Conclusion' from Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe - Uwe Backes and Patrick Moreau 'Introduction' from Radical Left Parties in Europe - Luke March Comparative Perspectives on Communist Successor Parties in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia - Taras Kuzio The Radical Left in Coalition Government - Richard Dunphy and Tim Bale Towards a Comparative Measurement of Success and Failure Out of Left Field? Explaining the Variable Electoral Success of European Radical Left Parties - Luke March and Charlotte Rommerskirchen PART TWO: LEFT POPULIST PARTIES IN LATIN AMERICA The Resurgence of Radical Populism in Latin America - Carlos de la Torre Latin America's Populist Revival - Kenneth Roberts Populism and Democracy in Latin America - Francisco Panizza and Romino Miorelli PART THREE: EXTREME LEFT SOCIAL MOVEMENTS From Seattle to Porto Alegre - Jose Seoane and Emilio Taddei The Anti-Neo-Liberal Globalization Movement 'This Is What Democracy Looks Like' - Jose Pedro Zuquete Is Representation under Siege? Why Does Occupy Matter? - Jenny Pickerill and John Krinsky The Occupy Movement - Jacquelien Van Stekelenburg Product of This Time Religion, Violence and Radical Environmentalism - Taylor Bron From Earth First! To the Unabomber to the Earth Liberation Front