Extremism & Democracy

The new year is already looking promising with three major events endorsed by the SG and set to shape the activity of our members and beyond. The Workshop entitled Movement Parties: Their Rise, Variety, and Consequences, chaired by Fred Paxton (University of Milan) and Endre Borbáth (Free University Berlin), was accepted for the ECPR Joint [Read More]

The Section ‘Radicalism, Populism, Extremism: Threat or Corrective for Democracy?’, chaired by Anna-Sophie Heinze (University of Trier) and Manès Weisskircher (TU Dresden), has been accepted to the 2021 ECPR General Conference in Innsbruck. The Section is proudly endorsed by the Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy and is now open for panel and paper proposals. [Read More]

The Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy is proudly endorsing the Workshop ‘New Frontiers in Democracy Research: Tackling a Conceptual and Methodological Impasse’ at the 2021 ECPR Joint Sessions. The Workshop, directed by Reinhard Heinisch (Universität Salzburg) and Annika Werner (Australian National University), is now accepting paper proposals for consideration. The deadline for submissions is [Read More]

In light of the worsening coronavirus situation across Europe, we regret to announce that the E&D Summer School on ‘Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’, scheduled to take place at the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX), Oslo, from 29 June to 3 July, has been postponed to June 2021. Dates to be [Read More]

1ST SUMMER SCHOOL OF THE ECPR STANDING GROUP ON EXTREMISM & DEMOCRACY ON ‘CONCEPTS AND METHODS FOR RESEARCH ON FAR-RIGHT POLITICS’ Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, 25-29 June 2018 The ECPR Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy, the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX), and the Centre on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS) invite applications for the [Read More]