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Authoritarian Temptations and Right-Wing Threat Alliance The Crisis of Capitalistic Societies in an Uncertain Future
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Authoritarian Temptations and Right-Wing Threat Alliance [electronic resource] : The Crisis of Capitalistic Societies in an Uncertain Future / by Wilhelm Heitmeyer.
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9783031529139
Edition
1st ed. 2024.
Publication
Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
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1 online resource (XV, 285 p.) 64 illus.
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This book, by noted German sociologist Wilhelm Heitmeyer, analyses capitalist development in Western Europe, with a focus on Germany, since the 1990s and its consequences for open society and liberal democracy. Following Heitmeyer's long-term interest in extremism, this book highlights two main threads of discussion: the causes and distribution of authoritarian tendencies, and the processes and steps of escalation of these tendencies through right-wing alliances. It critically views capitalism and capitalist governance in times of crises against problems of political representation and the devaluation of certain groups. It looks at a broad spectrum of attitudes in the population on the bases of a representative longitudinal study called 'group-focused enmity'. Using the model of a 'concentric escalation continuum', this book also analyses the steps of differentiation and dynamization of the right-wing spectrum in the process of development of successful right-wing alliances. Heitmeyer meticulously studies how violent processes escalate and increases as a danger for the open society and liberal democracy, especially in times of crisis and unsecured future. The book has important gleanings for anyone seeking to understand and address extremism and political alienation in societies today. The English translation of this book from its German original manuscript was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision of the content was done by a professional lector and the author.
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July 11, 2024
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. A Step towards Social Analysis: Authoritarian National Radicalism as a threat to open society and liberal democracy
2. Anchor Text from 2001: "Authoritarian Capitalism, Democracy Depletion and Right-wing Populism. An Analysis of Development Trends"
3. Increased Ambivalence in Modernity and Various Types of Authoritarianism
4. Decades of Insecurity. Authoritarian Temptations have reached the open Society
5. Recent Developments in Authoritarian Capitalism
6. Social Integration and Disintegration Dynamics in Uncertain Times
7. Democracy Development: Emptiness and Economization of the Political
8. Empirical Syntheses and Developmental Trajectories
9. AfD: Authoritarian National Radicalism
10. Mechanisms: Destruction through Shifts in Normality
11. Differentiation and Dynamization as a Success Model of Right-Wing Threat Alliances
12. The Concentric Escalation Continuum
13. Group-Focused Enmity in the Population: Legitimations for Right-Wing Threat Alliances
14. The Milieu of Authoritarian National Radicalism and Legitimation Bridges to the System-Hostile Milieu
15. System-Hostile Milieu: Movement-Like Right-Wing Extremism with Destruction Goals
16. The Clandestine Right-Wing Terrorist Planning and Support Milieu
17. Right-Wing Terrorism: Group and Individual Perpetrators
18. Quality Changes of Right-Wing Threat Alliances Over Time
19. Futures: Uncertain Complexity
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