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Politics And Democratic Consciousness In Modern Iran, Huss Banai
Politics And Democratic Consciousness In Modern Iran, Huss Banai
Huss Banai
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Who's Afraid Of The European Radical Right?, Cas Mudde
Who's Afraid Of The European Radical Right?, Cas Mudde
Cas Mudde
Many observers of European politics warn that democracy on the continent is in peril. Conservative authors argue that European governments are threatened by a spineless surrender to “Islamofascism,” while liberals fret that Europe is being overtaken by “ghosts of a tortured past,” that is, parties on the “far Right.” Whereas the Islamofascism argument lacks empirical substance and is mostly based on (Islamo)phobia, the “tortured past” claim is largely the result of conceptual confusion and an exaggeration of reality. Neither contem- porary European democracies nor the contem- porary “far Right” groups are similar to their “equivalents” in the 1930s. The contemporary …