The Populist Radical Right in Poland: The Patriots

by Rafal Pankowski

Overview

Rafal Pankowski makes sense of the rapid growth of organized radical nationalism on the political level in Poland by showing its origins, its internal dynamics and the historical, political, social and cultural context that has made it possible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415473538
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/12/2010
Series:	Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rafal Pankowski has served as deputy editor of ‘Nigdy Wiecej’ (Never Again) magazine since 1996. He has published widely on racism, nationalism, xenophobia and other issues including the books Neo-Fascism in Western Europe (1998) and Racism and Popular Culture (2006). He currently works as a lecturer at Collegium Civitas and head of the Warsaw-based East Europe Monitoring Centre.

Table of Contents

1. Pre-communist Legacies 2. Communist-Period Legacy The National Question and the Communist Regime 3. After Communism 4. The League of Polish Families and its Integral Nationalism 5. Self-Defence: Radical Populism 6. The Anti-Liberalism of Law and Justice 7. Nationalist Populism in Power: The 2005-7 Experiment and Beyond 8. Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

'This book's credibility comes not simply from the author's success in unearthing previously hidden material, but in its serious analysis of the historical, economic and cultural factors behind the emergence of Law and Justice, which is examined in the context of its links to other far-right parties and movements in Poland' - Richard Howitt, New Statesman, April 2010

'The book by Pankowski is undoubtedly an important voice in the debate on the ideological identity and the sources of success of the national populist parties in contemporary European democracies.' - e-Extreme (Electronic Newsletter of the ECPR-SG on Extremism and Democracy), Volume 11, No. 4, December 2010

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