Charles Lees uses data from the 2002 Federal elections to shed new light on political phenomena in Germany, allowing students of the comparative method to apply some of the concepts and approaches with which they are familiar to the context of a single country study.
How much does Germany's past weigh upon party politics in the Federal Republic today? Should phenomena such as disillusionment with the democratic process and the rise of right-wing parties be considered more worrying in Germany than in other advanced industrial democracies? And…
"How much does Germany's past weigh upon party politics in the Federal Republic today? Should phenomena such as disillusionment with the democratic process and the rise of right-wing parties be considered more worrying in Germany than in other advanced industrial democracies? An…
Reveals the problems that arise when a political movement seeks to embrace culture as the foundation for a political programme. This book examines the often contradictory motives that feed into New Right political pronouncements and explores the cultural thinking that feeds into…
This full-length study of the New Right in Germany breaks new ground by considering the New Right as both a political and a cultural movement. This approach reveals the problems that arise when a political movement seeks to embrace culture as the foundation for a political progr…
The New Right is constantly in the public eye in the Federal Republic and has assumed the role of intellectual vanguard of the Right since the start of the seventies. It promotes an assertive nationalism, German cultural distinctiveness and the idea that German Unification shoul…
"This is the first full-length study in English of German's New Right. In political terms the New Right occupies the grey area between the mainstream conservative and the extreme right-wing parties (DVU, NPD, Republikaner). In cultural terms the New Right is caught between the n…
