Meaning and Forms of Political Extremism

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Authors	BACKES Uwe STOJAROVÁ Věra
Year of publication	2007
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Středoevropské politické studie
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Law
Citation
Field	Political sciences
Keywords	Anarcho-communism; Autocracy; Constitutionalism; Democracy; Extremism; Fundamentalism; Marxism-Leninism; National Socialism; Non-democratic actors; Political extremism
Description	The article seeks to contribute to the conceptualisation of political extremism and to lay a foundation for further theoretical studies which are explanatory in nature. A sketch of the history of the concepts follows a discussion of structural characteristics and then a typological examination of forms of extremism, particularly those of the 20th and 21st century.
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