PEGIDA and New Right-Wing Populism in Germany

• Main Authors: Vorländer, Hans (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Herold, Maik (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Schäller, Steven (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies
• Subjects: Germany-Politics and government.; Democracy.; Europe-Politics and government.; German Politics.; European Politics.

This book provides the first systematic and comparative analysis of the German right-wing populist protest movement "PEGIDA". It offers an in-depth reconstruction of the movement's historical development, its organisational structure and its programmatic orientation. It depicts the pr...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The development of PEGIDA: From a movement of the outraged to a protest ritual
• 3. Dealing with PEGIDA: Between demarcation and dialogue
• 4. PEGIDA in the context of German right-wing populism
• 5. The PEGIDA demonstrators: characteristics and motivations
• 6. Right-wing populist attitudes at PEGIDA: findings and interpretations
• 7. Right-wing populism in Germany: Classification and explanation
• 8. PEGIDA as part of right-wing populism in Germany and Europe.