Political extremism is currently a very hot issue – this website was created to give research on extremism a home base mainly on the German-speaking network. What is the definition of extremism? What theories are there? How does banning political parties fit into a democratic society? This website is a research platform that collects scientific publications, judgments, laws and reports. Commented links take you to archives, projects and institutions. Though the main language is German, and contents focus on Germany, you will also find a lot of links and documents in English. Just have a look around. Apart others, the following English files are actually online:
 

 Cas Mudde:
Liberal Democracies and the Extremist Challenges of the Early 21st Century www.extremismus.com/texte/demo2.htm

 Ami Pedahzur:
Struggling Challenges of Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism within Democratic Boundaries: A Comparative Analysis 2001

 Giovanni Capoccia:
Repression, Incorporation, Lustration, Education: How Democracies React to Their Enemies 2001

 Paul Lucardie:
Democrats and other Extremists: A Comparative Analysis of Extremist Parties in Germany and the Netherlands 2001

 Cas Mudde:
The Populist Zeitgeist © Government and Opposition 39 (2004), Heft 4

 Roger Griffin:
Interregnum or Endgame? Radical Right Thought in the “Post-fascist” Era
aus: The Journal of Political Ideologies, 2/2000

 Roger Eatwell:
The Rebirth of the “Extreme Right” in Western Europe?
aus: Parliamentary Affairs 53 (2000)

 Philippe Poirier:
Subsidiarity, Regionalism and State-Nationalism: An Ideological Gap between European Parties of the New Right? 2001

 Alexandre Dézé:
An Alternative to the System or an Alternative within the System? An Analysis of the Relationship of Extreme Right Parties with the Political Systems of Western Democracies 2001

 Marga Gomez-Reino:
Comparing Varieties of Extremism: the Vlaams Blok and Lega Nord
April 2001 www.extremismus.com/texte/eurex.pdf

 Hans-Georg Betz:
Exclusionary Populism in Austria, Italy and Switzerland 2002 © renner-institut.at

 Damir Skenderovic:
The Swiss Radical Right in Perspective. A Reevaluation of Success Conditions in Switzerland 2001

 Joop J. M. van Holsteyn:
Neither Threat Nor Challenge. Right-wing Extremism in the Netherlands 2001

 Tor Bjørklund/Jørgen Goul Andersen:
Anti-Immigration-Parties in Denmark and Norway: The Progress Parties and the Danish People’s Party 1999

 Murray Goot:
Helped or Hindered? Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and the Party Cartelisation Thesis
Hobart 2003

 German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (ed.):
The Significance of Anti-Semitism in Current German Extremism
September 2002 © Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz

 Luke March / Cas Mudde:
What’s Left of the Radical Left? The European Radical Left after 1989: Decline and Mutation
aus: Comparative European Politics, 3/2005

 Karl A. Seger:
Left-Wing Extremism: The Current Threat April 2001