Organizing Against Democracy(English, Hardcover, Ellinas Antonis A.)

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Organizing Against Democracy(English, Hardcover, Ellinas Antonis A.) is written by Ellinas Antonis A. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108415148 (ISBN 10) and 9781108415149 (ISBN 13).

Organizing Against Democracy investigates some of the most important challenges modern democracies face, filling a distinctive gap in the literature, both empirically and theoretically. Ellinas examines the attempts of three of the most extreme European far-right parties to establish roots in local societies, and the responses of democratic actors. He offers a theory of local party development to analyze the many factors affecting the evolution of far-right parties at the subnational level. Using extraordinarily rich data, the author examines the 'lives' of local far-right party organizations in Greece, Germany and Slovakia, studying thousands of party activities and interviewing dozens of party leaders and functionaries, and antifascists. He goes on to explore how and why extreme parties succeed in some local settings while, in others, they fail. This book broadens our understanding of right-wing extremism, illuminating the factors limiting its corrosiveness.