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Right-wing Extremism/Radicalism: Reconstructing the Concept

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This article reconstructs the concept of right-wing extremism/radicalism. Using Mudde’s influential 1995 study as a foundation, it first canvasses the recent academic literature to explore how the concept has been described and defined. It suggests that, despite the frequent warnings that we lack an unequivocal definition of this concept, there is actually a high degree of consensus amongst the definitions put forward by different scholars. However, it argues that the characteristics mentioned in some of the definitions have not been organized meaningfully. It, therefore, moves on to distinguish between the defining properties of right-wing extremism/radicalism and the accompanying ones, and in so doing it advances a minimal definition of the concept as an ideology that encompasses authoritarianism, anti-democracy and exclusionary and/or holistic nationalism.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 11, 2016
Publication Date Mar 26, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Political Ideologies
Print ISSN 1356-9317
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 23
Issue 2
Pages 157-182
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2018.1451227
Keywords extreme right, radical right, definition, authoritarianism, anti-democracy,nationalism
Publisher URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13569317.2018.1451227

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