Far-Right Activists in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands

Multiple Perspectives on the Far-Right in Europe
By Bert Klandermans, Annette Linden, Nonna Mayer
English

Based on a comparative survey of the personal experiences of far-right activists in five countries (Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, and the Netherlands), this paper shows that the common factor structuring their political identity is the stigmatization to which they are subjected. The case of the Netherlands, where this has reached its paroxysm, is used by the authors to show how the activists? response strategies, which range from denial to reversal of the stigma, vary according to the trajectories along which they joined the movement and on whether they perceive it in terms of continuity, conversion, or dependence.

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