The dark side of European integration : social foundations and cultural determinants of the rise of radical right movements in contemporary Europe / Alina Polyakova.
Material type: TextPublisher number: EB00665332 | Recorded BooksSeries: Explorations of the far right ; 4.Publisher: Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (180 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783838267968
- 3838267966
- Right-wing extremists -- Europe, Eastern
- Right-wing extremists -- Europe, Western
- Nationalism -- Europe, Eastern
- Nationalism -- Europe, Western
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General
- Nationalism
- Right-wing extremists
- Eastern Europe
- Western Europe
- 324.2/13094 23
- JN96.A979 P65 2015eb
Ph. D. University of California, Berkeley, CA
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Across Europe, radical right-wing parties are winning increasing electoral support. The Dark Side of European Integration argues that this rising nationalism and the mobilization of the radical right are the consequences of European economic integration. The European economic project has produced a cultural backlash in the form of nationalist radical right ideologies. This assessment relies on a detailed analysis of the electoral rise of radical right parties in Western and Eastern Europe. Contrary to popular belief, economic performance and immigration rates are not the only factors that determine the far right's success. There are other political and social factors that explain why in post-socialist Eastern European countries such parties had historically been weaker than their potential, which they have now started to fulfill increasingly. Using in-depth interviews with radical right activists in Ukraine, Alina Polyakova also explores how radical right mobilization works on the ground through social networks, allowing new insights into how social movements and political parties interact.
Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter One Introduction; The Dark Side of Europe; The Polanyian Moment; Symptoms of a Countermovement?; Themes and Roadmap; Chapter Two Electoral Support for Radical Right Parties in Western and Eastern Europe; Defining the Radical Right; The Paradox of the "Backward" East; Explanations and Hypotheses; Data and Model Design; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; Chapter Three How Right-Wing Mobilization Works on the Ground; Explaining Movement Participation: Social Networks and Activists' Motivations.
The Case: Ukraine's Radical Right MovementMethod and Data; Recruitment Strategies in the Nationalist Heartland: Galicia; Recruitment Strategies Outside the Heartland: Volyn; How and Why They Join: Radical Right Activists; Conclusion; Chapter Four Reimagining Political Parties and Social Movements; 1950s-1960s: From Marxism to Structuralism; 1970s-1980s: Mobilization Theories; 1990s-2000s: Collective Action Frames and Contentious Politics; Where Are We Now?; Where We Are Going: Political Articulation and Field Theories; Field Theory of Social Movements and Political Parties; Conclusion.
Chapter Five ConclusionSummary of Key Findings; What Would Polanyi Say?; Unintended Consequences of Economic Integration; An Ever-Closer Union?; Bibliography; Index.
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