Research on Democracy and Society

by Weil, Frederick D.; Gautier, Mary; Lee, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9781559388986
• ISBN10: 1559388986
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-09-01
• Publisher: Jai

Summary

Volume three concerns political action on the margins of conventional political participation in a democracy: extremist, protest, and social movements. This theme covers a huge spectrum, ranging from pro-democracy movements in authoritarian regimes to anti-democratic extremist. The volume is organised in four sections: first, a theoretical paper linking the social movements literature to the literature on democratization; second, a series of comparative studies; third, essays on the United States and western Europe; and finally, a set of studies of successful or failed democratic transition in Yugoslavia, South Africa and the Philippines. The first section presents an ambitious synthesis of social movement theories with the 'political interactionist' theories of democratization associated with Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe Schmitter, Adam Przeworski and others. The second section contains comparative studies, examining whether recent right-wing extremist voting in western Europe represents a real shift to the right. Two dimensions of nationalism in eastern Europe are examined and another chapter looks at two contextual factors affecting political protest in western democracies: mobilization by collective organizations and national political and socioeconomic conditions. Finally Karl-Dieter Opp examines the prospective role of political protest in the European unification process. Four papers pursue the analysis of contemporary far right in France, Germany and Austria. What are the characteristics of French National Front voters? Focus is also placed on right-wing violence in unified Germany and racism and anti-semitism in Austria. Two potential threats to democracy are studied: Basque terrorism and nazism in interwar Germany. Finally in this, there is an examination of the rise to power of the Nazy Party in Germany.

Table of Contents

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS	vii	(2)
PREFACE	ix
Frederick D. Weil
PART I. THEORETICAL	3	(38)
SOCIAL MOVEMENT DYNAMICS DURING DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION: A SYNTHESIS OF POLITICAL PROCESS AND POLITICAL INTERACTIONIST THEORIES	3	(38)
Ron Pagnucco
PART II. COMPARATIVE STUDIES	41	(114)
THE MASS BASIS OF THE EXTREME RIGHT IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE	41	(22)
Jurgen W. Falter
Markus Klein
DOMINANT AND MAJORITY EXCLUSIVE NATIONALISM IN EASTERN EUROPE: SEARCHING FOR DETERMINANTS	63	(28)
Mary E. McIntosh
Martha Abele Maclver
Daniel G. Abele
CONTEXTS OF POLITICAL PROTEST IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES: POLITICAL ORGANIZATION AND MODERNITY	91	(44)
Edeltraud Roller
Bernhard Wessels
THE ROLE OF VOICE IN A FUTURE EUROPE	135	(20)
Karl-Dieter Opp
PART III. CASE STUDIES: THE UNITED STATES AND WESTERN EUROPE	155	(200)
MOVEMENT STRATEGY AND DRAMATURGIC FRAMING IN DEMOCRATIC STATES: THE CASE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT	155	(22)
Doug McAdam
DAVID DUKE: DEMOCRACY UNDER STRESS IN LOUISIANA	177	(20)
Susan E. Howell
Lyle Downing
THE NATIONAL FRONT VOTE AND RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM, 1988-1995	197	(26)
Nonna Mayer
THE FAR RIGHT IN UNIFIED GERMANY	223	(32)
Michael Minkenberg
RECENT RIGHT-WING RADICALISM IN GERMANY: ITS DEVELOPMENT AND RESONANCE IN THE PUBLIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES	255	(20)
Dieter Rucht
"OTHERS IN DISCOURSE": RACISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM IN PRESENT-DAY AUSTRIA	275	(22)
Ruth Wodak
THE POLITICAL CONDITIONING OF COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE: REGIME CHANGE AND INSURGENT TERRORISM IN SPAIN	297	(30)
Fernando Reinares
NAZISM THROUGH DEMOCRACY: WHY 14 MILLION GERMANS VOTED FOR THE NAZI PARTY	327	(28)
William Brustein
PART IV. CASE STUDIES: OTHER REGIONS	355
THE BREAKUP OF YUGOSLAVIA	355	(24)
Anthony Oberschall
SOCIAL-MOVEMENT UNIONISM IN TRANSITION: LABOR AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN SOUTH AFRICA	379	(18)
Gay W. Seidman
PUTTING "PEOPLE POWER" BACK TOGETHER AGAIN: SOME PUZZLES FROM THE PHILIPPINES	397
Mark R. Thompson