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- Is the first study to systematically measure and study left-wing extremism attitudes
- Systematically studies and compares LWE and RWE in a common framework
- Analyzes the origins of political extremist attitudes using data on the individual and the context level
Part of the book series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies (NPG)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a systematic overview of the prevalence, causes, and stability of left-wing and right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany between 1994 and 2017. It shows that there are many similarities between left-wing and right-wing extremists, both in terms of their ideologies and their individual experiences. Overall, these causes can be traced back to three factors: unmet individual needs (e.g., deprivation or disenchantment with politics), access to ideological narratives that promise simplified solutions to individual problems, and the larger social circumstances of life (e.g., transformation processes, unemployment, or immigration). Although extremist attitudes are relatively rare, they are also shown to be highly stable: once acquired, individuals are difficult to bring back onto the democratic path. This book is the first to systematically compare left-wing and right-wing extremist attitudes, to provide an intensive methodological contribution to the measurability of such attitudes, and to relate their causes and stability.
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Authors and Affiliations
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University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Sebastian Jungkunz
About the author
Sebastian Jungkunz is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Socio-Economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, Germany, and project leader at Zeppelin University, Germany. He received his PhD from the University of Bamberg, Germany, and was a visiting scholar at Waseda University, Japan. He is currently working on projects concerning the impact of socio-economic problems on cognitive health and political participation, the development of political attitudes among adolescents, and the measurement and explanation of political and religious extremism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Nature and Origins of Political Extremism In Germany and Beyond
Authors: Sebastian Jungkunz
Series Title: New Perspectives in German Political Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83336-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83335-0Published: 25 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83338-1Published: 26 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83336-7Published: 24 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2947-6747
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6755
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 231
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Politics, Political Science, Electoral Politics