Mapping the extreme right in contemporary Europe : from local to transnational /

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Mapping the right of the mainstream right in contemporary Europe -- Backlash in the hood: exploring support for the British National Party (BNP) at the local level / Matthew J. Goodwin -- After colonialism: local politics and far-right affinities in a city of southern France / John Veugelers -- Placing the extremes: cityscape, ethnic others and young right extremists in East Berlin / Nitzan Shoshan -- Extreme-right discourse in Belgium: a comparative regional approach / Jérôme Jamin -- Regionalism, right-wing extremism, populism: the elusive nature of the lega nord / Giorgia Bulli and Filippo Tronconi -- The Portuguese radical right in the democratic period / Riccardo Marchi -- The Spanish extreme right: from neo-Francoism to xenophobic discourse / José L. Rodríguez Jiménez -- Laos and the Greek far right since 1974 / Antonis A. Ellinas -- The extreme right in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia / Vera Stojarová --^Extreme-right paramilitary units in Eastern Europe / Miroslav Mare and Richard Stojar -- Extreme-right parties in Romania after 1990: incumbency, organization and success / Gabriela Borz -- Anti-semitism and the extreme right in contemporary Ukraine / Per Rudling -- Challenging the exceptionalist view: favourable conditions for radical right-wing populism in Switzerland / Damir Skenderovic -- Turkish extreme right in office: whither democracy and democratization / Ekin Burak Arikan -- Scandinavian right-wing parties: diversity more than convergence / Marie Demker -- Downside after the summit: factors in extreme-right party decline in France and Austria / Michelle Hale Williams -- Rights, roots, and routes: local and transnational contexts of extreme-right movements in contemporary Malta / Mark-Anthony Falzon and Mark Micallef -- Cross-national ideology in local elections: the case of Azione sociale and the British National Party / Andrea Mammone and Timothy Peace --^The transfer of ideas along a cultural gradient: the influence of the European new right on Aleksandr Panarin's new Eurasianism / Marina Peunova -- Trans-European trends in right-wing extremism / Michael Whine