The Extreme Right in Western Europe and the USA

by Paul Hainsworth, Malcolm Anderson

The Extreme Right in Europe and America examines the conceptualization and prevalence of the postwar extreme right in a comparative framework; the book documents the degree to which certain ideas are particular to extreme right origins and where they overlap with traditional democracy, intense nationalism, mistrust of immigrants, racism, anti-Semitism, socio-biological elitism, adulation of the family, scapegoat-seeking, and conspiracy theorizing.

Hardcover

First published August 15, 1992

About the author

Paul Hainsworth is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. He is the editor of The Extreme Right in Europe and the USA (1992) and The Politics of the Extreme Right: From the Margins to the Mainstream (2000).