Political scientist´s guide to the „terminological chaos“: Terminology, characterisation, and conceptualisation of the far right ideological family. Cover Image

Politológov sprievodca „terminologickým chaosom“: Terminológia, charakteristika a konceptualizácia krajnepravicovej ideologickej rodiny.
Political scientist´s guide to the „terminological chaos“: Terminology, characterisation, and conceptualisation of the far right ideological family.

Author(s): Tomáš Nociar
Subject(s): Civil Society
Published by: Centrum pro bezpečnostní a strategická studia, o.s.
Keywords: Terminology; Conceptualisation; Single-Issue Parties; Anti-Immigrant Parties; Right-Wing Extremism; Right-Wing Radicalism; Extreme Right; Radical Right; Far Right; Populism; neo-Nazism; neo-Fascism

Summary/Abstract: The following article focuses on the terminology used to label far right political actors. It presents a summary of the academic debate which is still ongoing among the scholars focusing on the far right politics. The article is divided into three parts. In the first part, it introduces a plethora of terms used in this context, and divides them into three larger subgroups. In the second part, it characterizes the contemporary far right on the basis of four different criteria: spatial, ideological, attitudinal and historical. The third, final part, offers a conceptualization of the most common terms, based especially on the writings of the Dutch political scientist Cas Mudde. The primary aim of this paper is to provide the first complex academic treatise of far right terminology, which the Slovak political science still lacks up to this date.

  • Issue Year: 14/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 43-91
  • Page Count: 48
  • Language: Czech