Extremism & Democracy

Workshop: Fringe Political Parties in Southeast and Eastern Europe Location and date: Ghent University, 9-10 May 2016 Organiser: Centre for EU Studies (Ghent University) together with the UACES Collaborative Research Network “Fringe Politics in Southeast Europe” For further details: Website Abstract: Post-authoritarian transition in Southeast Europe (SEE) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has proved particularly challenging [Read More]

Conference: 2nd Prague Populism Conference Location and date: Prague, 23-24 May 2016 For further details: Conference website The Institute for International Studies Charles University in Prague together with Heinrich Böll Stiftung organizes on 23 and 24 May 2016 the 2nd Prague Populism Conference titled “Current Populism in Europe: Impact on the Political Landscape”. The conference is dedicated [Read More]

Conference: Legal Proceedings against Right-Wing Terrorism. Perspectives from Political Sociology and the Sociology of Law Location and date: University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, 4-5 December 2015 For further details: Conference website Abstract: Several countries have witnessed severe acts of right-wing terrorism in the past decades. Be it the bank robberies and murder of Alan Berg by [Read More]

The new issue of e-Extreme is out now – as usual, with plenty of news, reports, and reviews. The issue can be read online by clicking on the window below. Enjoy!

Conference: 24th World Congress of Political Science Panel: The Impact of Far Right Parties on European Democracies Location and date: Istanbul, 23-28 July 2016 Chair: Steven M. Van Hauwaert (UCLouvain) Co-chair: Sarah de Lange (University of Amsterdam) For further details: Conference website Abstract: In the past three decades, far right parties have emerged throughout Europe. Given [Read More]

The new issue of e-Extreme is now available and can be read online by clicking on the window below. Enjoy!

The ECPR has recently made some improvements to the way its Standing Groups are presented on its website. These are designed primarily to provide more information in more user-friendly format to people who might be interested in joining a Standing Group. These developments also enable people to join a Group at the click of a [Read More]

Call for Papers for the Special Issue “Legitimation strategies in autocracies” of Comparative Governance and Politics/Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft Edited by Steffen Kailitz, Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism, TU Dresden, steffen.kailitz@mailbox.tu-dresden.de Stefan Wurster, Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, stefan.wurster@ipw.uni-heidelberg.de David Beetham called the legitimation of power “the central issue in social and [Read More]

The new issue of e-Extreme is now available! The issue, which marks a total restyling in the layout of our publication, can be browsed online by clicking on the window below. Enjoy!

Welcome to the new Standing Group website! As the Standing Group enters its sixteenth year of activity, we are very happy to launch a revamped version of our homepage. Besides changes in the graphic layout, we have tried to maintain previously available functions, whilst making contents easier to navigate. Amongst other things, we have made our [Read More]