Reinventing the Italian right: territorial politics, populism and "post-fascism"
In: Routledge studies in extremism and democracy 10
Includes bibliographical references
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In: Routledge studies in extremism and democracy 10
Includes bibliographical references
In: Europe in change
In: European politics and society, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 567-588
ISSN: 2374-5126
In: Human rights review: HRR, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 65-81
ISSN: 1874-6306
This paper examines how civil society actors in the EU utilize the political and legal opportunities provided by the EU's fundamental rights policy to mobilize against discrimination, notably racism, and xenophobia. It emphasizes the multiple enabling roles that this policy provides to civil society associations engaged in judicial activism, political advocacy, and service delivery both at the EU and Member State levels, and assesses their effectiveness. It describes several factors that hinder the implementation of EU fundamental rights policy and reviews the strategies of civil society to overcome them. It highlights the reluctance of parts of public opinion to combat ethnic prejudice, considers reactions against what at a time of crisis is perceived as a costly project of social regulation, and examines civil society responses. The data sources consist of interviews with bureaucratic and civil society actors at EU level. Adapted from the source document.
In: Human rights review: HRR, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 65-81
ISSN: 1874-6306
In: Journal of European integration: Revue d'intégration européenne, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 453-469
ISSN: 1477-2280
In: Journal of European integration, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 453-469
ISSN: 0703-6337
World Affairs Online
In: Social rights, active citizenship and governance in the European Union, S. 175-193
In: Journal of political ideologies, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 259-271
ISSN: 1469-9613
In: Journal of civil society, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 81-85
ISSN: 1744-8697
In: Journal of political ideologies, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 259-272
ISSN: 1356-9317
In: Policy and society, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 87-98
ISSN: 1839-3373
AbstractThis paper examines and classifies "uncivil society" in Europe, that is, a set of associational activities characterized by discursively exclusionist, undemocratic or violent features. With particular reference to organizations connected to the political right, it examines the relation between political systems and civil society, identifying the factors that have made civil society relevant for political actors and pointing to a relation of mutual dependence between the associational world and political movements and parties.It is argued that membership in uncivil society organizations is an alternative type of political participation which articulates growing anti-political sentiments, and that the emergence of uncivil society activities is rooted in newly relevant conceptions of social and political life which are anti-modern and based on ascriptive criteria of membership. Uncivil society organizations are classified as racist, nationalist and populist, and characterized as biologically essentialist, or territorially or culturally exclusionist.
In: Italian Political Science Review: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 139-140
ISSN: 0048-8402
In: Innovation: the European journal of social science research, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 291-310
ISSN: 1469-8412
In: Journal of European integration: Revue d'intégration européenne, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 145-171
ISSN: 1477-2280