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oapen-20.500.12657-860692023-12-13T02:30:32Z Civil Democracy Protection Backes, Uwe Lindenberger, Thomas Anti-Defamation League;Austria;anti-extremism;Belgium;civil society;England;Europe;extremism;Flanders;France;far right;far-right;Germany;terrorism;USA;Weimar Republic bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPA Political science & theory Civil Democracy Protection is an overview of attempts by organisations to oppose groups that are perceived to threaten democracy. The book traces the history of civil democracy protection actors from the establishment of democratic constitutional states up to the present day and develops a set of systematic and comparative approaches. The central question it explores is: What significance do civil actors have for the establishment and consolidation of democratic constitutional states, especially in relation to the protection of democracy by state institutions? The volume includes contributions from historians and social scientists, who combine idiographic approaches that focus on the specifics of individual cases with nomothetic approaches that aim to provide generalisable insights, incorporating historical experiences from various European countries and the USA in the 20th and early 21st century. This book will be of interest to scholars of democracy protection, civil society, consolidation of democracy, and anti- extremism. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International license. 2023-12-12T12:50:02Z 2023-12-12T12:50:02Z 2024 book 9781032343914 9781003321880 9781032333670 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86069 eng Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9781003844761.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003321880 10.4324/9781003321880 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781032343914 9781003321880 9781032333670 Routledge 263 open access
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Civil Democracy Protection is an overview of attempts by organisations to oppose groups that are perceived to threaten democracy.
The book traces the history of civil democracy protection actors from the establishment of democratic constitutional states up to the present day and develops a set of systematic and comparative approaches. The central question it explores is: What significance do civil actors have for the establishment and consolidation of democratic constitutional states, especially in relation to the protection of democracy by state institutions? The volume includes contributions from historians and social scientists, who combine idiographic approaches that focus on the specifics of individual cases with nomothetic approaches that aim to provide generalisable insights, incorporating historical experiences from various European countries and the USA in the 20th and early 21st century.
This book will be of interest to scholars of democracy protection, civil society, consolidation of democracy, and anti- extremism.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International license.
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