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Extreme Parties and Political Rents [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Abstract We study the rent-seeking behavior of political parties in a proportional representation system. In our model, the final policy choice of the parliament is a weighted average of parties’ policy positions, weights being their vote shares.
openaire   +3 more sources

Prevent and Community Cohesion in Britain – The Worst of All Possible Worlds? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This chapter offers a critical analysis of the UK’s Prevent programme to date, and argues that it has been ineffective, or even counter-productive because of a number of conceptual flaws and contradictions. In particular, the monocultural focus on entire,
Thomas, Paul
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Defining Political Extremism in the Balkans. The Case of Serbia

open access: yesInternational Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2015
Political extremism (and particularly right wing political extremism) remains relatively insufficiently explored due to the fact that the phenomenon is controversial and hard to define. Its ambiguity and variability depending on time and spatial point of
Marko Babić
doaj   +1 more source

Researching far right extremism—a transdisciplinary, lifeworld, and political culture perspective

open access: yesZeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 2023
Far right extremism, understood as both an ideology of inequality and exclusion that manifests itself in attitudes and behavior as well as a heterogeneous movement, partially with affinity to violence, challenges and even threatens democratic societies ...
R. Frankenberger   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Fusion of International and Domestic Law in a Globalised World

open access: yesUtrecht Journal of International and European Law, 2017
Keywords: death penalty; capital cases; discrimination litigation; standard of proof; fair trial and equality protection; postconflict justice and transition; Islamic law; Shari’a; international humanitarian law; international human rights law; extremism,
Karolina Aksamitowska
doaj   +1 more source

The Interaction of Civil Society and Government in Countering Political Extremism in Modern Russia: the Content and Priorities

open access: yesУправленческое консультирование, 2018
The article is devoted to topical issues of cooperation between the state and civil society in countering extremism in modern Russia. The authors reveal the concept, the signs of political extremism, as well as the main approaches to the understanding of
Alexei Victorovich Melnikov   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Countering/Preventing Violent Extremism in Nigeria, Somalia, and Pakistan: A Comparative Analysis

open access: yesNUST Journal of International Peace and Stability, 2022
After a two-decade-long War on Terror (WoT), the world still faces the threat of violent extremism and terrorism. The persistent presence and spread of violent extremism have attracted academic and policy debate on countering the threat.
Sadia Sulaiman
doaj   +1 more source

The Alt-Right and Global Information Warfare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The Alt-Right is a neo-fascist white supremacist movement that is involved in violent extremism and shows signs of engagement in extensive disinformation campaigns.
Bevensee, Emmi, Ross, Alexander Reid
core   +3 more sources

Historical Roots of Political Extremism: The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2017
The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy and when, for the first time in a generation, Italians were choosing political affiliations and forming political identities.
N. Fontana, T. Nannicini, G. Tabellini
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What Kind of Pedagogy Do We Need to Address Extremism and Terror?

open access: yesJournal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 2016
One of our primary objectives of this paper is to examine the veracity of the modern usage of ‘extremism’ in order to broaden the understanding of this phenomenon and relatedly also open up the space in which solution to extremism can be found ...
Muhammad Ayaz Naseem, Adeela Arshad-Ayaz
doaj   +1 more source

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