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Author Laumond, Bénédicte, author.

Title Policy responses to the radical right in France and Germany : public actors, policy frames, and decision-making / Bénédicte Laumond
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Series Routledge studies in extremism and democracy
Routledge studies in extremism and democracy.
Contents Responding to right-wing radicalism : a policy matter -- The radical right and its opponents in France and Germany : contextualisation and evolutions (1950-2017) -- Towards the identification of national frames of responses to right-wing radicalism -- Towards the identification of multiple frames among actors responding to the radical right : between ideas, institutions, and interests -- The decision-making process of policy responses to the radical right -- Banning right-wing extremist associations in France and Germany : decision-making processes and outcomes
Summary "Based on research fieldwork conducted in France and Germany, this study seeks to explain how public actors have taken part in the regulation of the expression of right-wing radicalism. The author compares these two neighbouring countries which have framed the struggle against right-wing radicalism differently. German political and state actors have constructed a public policy responding to political radicalism, whilst in France, the radical right is primarily handled in the political arena. The text evaluates how these two Western European democracies address the paradox of tolerance, i.e. the fact that liberal democracies may restrain rights they value, such as freedom of speech, in order to repress intolerant forces that threaten democracy. This book is core reading for scholars and students interested in the spread of far-right politics in contemporary democracies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Bénédicte Laumond is a post-doctoral fellow on the French-German Joint Project (ANR-DFG) Penal Cultures in France and Germany and a lecturer at the University of Versailles, France
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Subject Right-wing extremists -- Government policy -- France
Right-wing extremists -- Government policy -- Germany
Freedom of speech -- France
Freedom of speech -- Germany
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- General.
Freedom of speech
France
Germany
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429327599
0429327595
9781000050530
100005053X
9781000050455
1000050459
9781000050493
1000050491