The nature and origins of political extremism in Germany and beyond / Sebastian Jungkunz.
Jungkunz, Sebastian, author.
2022
HN460.R3 J86 2022
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Title The nature and origins of political extremism in Germany and beyond / Sebastian Jungkunz.
Author Jungkunz, Sebastian, author.
ISBN 9783030833367 (electronic bk.)
3030833364 (electronic bk.)
9783030833350
3030833356
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83336-7
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-83336-7 doi
Call Number HN460.R3 J86 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.530943
Summary 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. 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.
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Series New perspectives in German political studies.
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1. Introduction
2. Definition
3. Theory
4. Research Design: From Theory to Application
5. Measuring Extremist Attitudes
6. The Distribution of Extremist Attitudes within German Society
7. The Origins of Political Extremism
8. Conclusion.

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