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The Far Right, Radical Right, or Hard Right are terms used by many scholars to discuss political groups, movements, and political parties that are located to the right of mainstream electoral conservatism.
Much confusion is caused by widely varying usage of the term.
Far Right can refer to:
- The Dissident Right, Activist Right, Right-Wing Populism, or rightist factions of conservative political parties. These are all forms of Right-wing politics located between traditional conservatives and the extreme right. In this case particpants are found outside mainstream electoral politics, but they generally produce a movement of drastic reform rather than actual revolution.
- The extreme right, which includes neo-fascists, White supremacists, and Neo-Nazis. Such groups are generally revolutionary in character rather than reformist.
- The whole range of right-wing politics from the Dissident Right to the far reaches of the extreme right.
The page Right-wing politics helps sort this out.
The list below includes a range of political parties, some of which have also been decribed as extreme right or even neo-fascist:
Current political parties referred to as far right
- Alternativa Sociale (Italy)
- Al Wefaq (Bahrain)
- British National Party
- Christian Falangist Party of America (USA)
- Constitution Party (USA)
- Danish People's Party (Denmark)
- Eurasia Party (Russia)
- Finnish People's Blue-whites
- Freedom Party of Austria
- Imperial Party (United Kingdom)
- Jathika Hela Urumaya (Sri Lanka)
- Kach and Kahane Chai (Israel)
- Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
- Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski (Poland)
- National Democratic Party of Germany
- National Front (Belgium)
- National Front (France)
- One Nation Party (Australia)
- Popular Orthodox Rally (Greece)
- Progress Party (Norway)
- Sweden Democrats
- Swiss Democrats
- Vlaams Belang (Belgium)
References
Betz, Hans-Georg and Stefan Immerfall, eds. 1998. The New Politics of the Right: Neo-Populist Parties and Movements in Established Democracies. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Betz, Hans-Georg. 1994. Radical Right-wing Populism in Western Europe, New York: St. Martins Press,.
Durham, Martin. 2000. The Christian Right, the Far Right and the Boundaries of American Conservatism. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press.