The Golden Dawn's 'Nationalist Solution': Explaining the Rise of the Far Right in Greece: Reform and Transition in the Mediterranean
Autor Sofia Vasilopoulou, Daphne Halikiopoulouen Limba Engleză Electronic book text – 24 feb 2015
What explains the dramatic rise of the extreme, ultranationalist Golden Dawn in a country that has experienced Nazi invasion and a military dictatorship? This book places the rise of the Golden Dawn in the context of the Eurozone crisis and argues that its rise is not merely the product of economic malaise. Rather, the success of the Golden Dawn is dependent on the extent to which it was able to propound plausible solutions to the three sets of crises - economic, political and ideological - that culminated in an overall crisis of democracy in Greece. The authors argue that much of the party's success can be attributed to its strategic choice to tap into the widespread disillusionment of the Greek people by offering them a 'nationalist solution': a rhetoric that emphasizes the twin fascist myths of social decadence and national rebirth.
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ISBN-10: 1137535911
Pagini: 122
Ediția:
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Seria Reform and Transition in the Mediterranean
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Cuprins
List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The Rise of the Golden Dawn in the Context of the Greek Crisis
3. Who Supports the Golden Dawn? An Analysis of the Disillusioned Voter
4. The Myth of Social Decadence: The Golden Dawn's Populist Nation-statism
5. The Myth of National Rebirth: The Golden Dawn's Populist Ultra-nationalism
6. Conclusion
Appendix
References
Recenzii
"At last the fragmented media coverage of the Golden Dawn in English has been supplemented by a sustained, comprehensive study of its origins, social base, ideology, and place within the extended family of ultranationalist and neo-populist movements in Europe. The Greek authors not only write in a sophisticated, concise academic register that is a lesson to many native speakers, but show a refreshing familiarity with comparative fascism studies seen through the lens of the New Consensus. As a result Europe's most fully developed neo-fascist party can be seen in High Definition, not just providing insights about the Golden Dawn's derivativeness and originality, but allowing marginalized inter-war fascist movements to be understood as complex, living, constantly evolving social and political entities, that no matter how impotent, can still poison democracies and incite violence against mythic enemies. This book does for fascism what Jurassic Park did for dinosaurs.' -Roger Griffin, author of The Nature of Fascism and Modernism and Fascism
'The authors provide solid reference tools to understand the widening of the extreme right-wing party arena in Greece. Focusing on the Golden Dawn, the authors offer a dispassionate and scientific analysis that places the rise of a pro-Nazi militia in a complex of causal links between demand-side and supply-side explanations. This is an important contribution to our comprehension of the electoral breakthrough of Golden Dawn.' - Vassiliki Georgiadou, Associate Professor of Political Science, Panteion University, Athens, Greece
Notă biografică
Sofia Vasilopoulou is Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York, UK. Her work examines the theme of political dissatisfaction with democracy and democratic institutions across Europe.
Daphne Halikiopoulou is Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Reading, UK. Her work focuses on nationalism and party competition in Europe. She is interested in the radical aspect of nationalism, right-wing extremism and the politics of exclusion.