Political Extremism in Democracies

Combating Intolerance
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-34079-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

When political 'extremists' - organized into parties that compete openly and successfully in democratic elections - enter the conventional institutional arena, how do mainstream actors react? This book deals with understanding how democracies respond to party-based extremism and with what consequences.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Downs, William M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Pariahs in their Midst: Organized Extremism and the Problem of Tolerance in Contemporary Democracies Ignore, Isolate, Co-Opt, Collaborate or Ban? Mapping Strategic Responses to Pariah Parties Determinants of Democratic Defensiveness Is the Cordon Sanitaire Effective? The Moderating Effects of Incumbency? Responding to Political Extremism Without Succumbing to It Ban the Bans, but Guard the Threshold? 'Lessons' from Old to New Democracies

Über Autor(innen)

WILLIAM M. DOWNS Associate Dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, an Associate Professor of Political Science, and the co-director of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of and has published research articles on political parties, electoral behavior, legislative institutions, and extremism in such journals as , , , , , , and . Downs has held a Fulbright research fellowship in Belgium, been a research fellow at Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and served as a visiting faculty member at Aarhus University in Denmark.