The way in which democratic states react to political parties with anti-democratic goals is a subject of major interest and debate in the study of political extremism. Previous authors have coined the term ‘militant democracy’ for states that employ severe restrictions against extremist parties. In this regard, Germany is widely perceived as the prototype of a 'militant democracy'. The so-called ‘wehrhafte Demokratie’ scheme within the Basic Law consists of provisions such as Art. 21(2), providing the possibility of banning a party. However, recent developments in the German practice of party-banning challenge the outright classification of Germany as a ‘militant democracy’. Based on a case study of the failed attempt to ban the extreme-rig...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
This paper seeks to understand the reasons for the German extreme-right’s successes and failures, pa...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
Recent years have witnessed a growing tendency among established democracies to battle political ext...
Aus Anlass der thüringischen Ministerpräsidentenwahl 2020 kritisiert der Beitrag die Extremismustheo...
This paper asks whether Austria can be considered a militant democracy. The concept designates a for...
The Weimar Republic, founded in November 1918, was the first real democracy on German territory. It ...
This article chronicles the AfD’s rightward repositioning and compares it with the programmatic deve...
This ethnography analyzes the relationship between extremism and normativity in liberal democracies....
As long as the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) was able to capitalize on East German discontent ...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
© 2016 European Consortium for Political Research When democracies ban political parties, one of the...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
This paper seeks to understand the reasons for the German extreme-right’s successes and failures, pa...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
Recent years have witnessed a growing tendency among established democracies to battle political ext...
Aus Anlass der thüringischen Ministerpräsidentenwahl 2020 kritisiert der Beitrag die Extremismustheo...
This paper asks whether Austria can be considered a militant democracy. The concept designates a for...
The Weimar Republic, founded in November 1918, was the first real democracy on German territory. It ...
This article chronicles the AfD’s rightward repositioning and compares it with the programmatic deve...
This ethnography analyzes the relationship between extremism and normativity in liberal democracies....
As long as the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) was able to capitalize on East German discontent ...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
© 2016 European Consortium for Political Research When democracies ban political parties, one of the...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...
This paper seeks to understand the reasons for the German extreme-right’s successes and failures, pa...
The growing threat to liberal democracy worldwide is, in many ways, a political-party threat. Recent...