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Revision as of 23:52, 26 November 2005 by Cberlet (talk | contribs) (fix links)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Far Right, Radical Right, or Right-Wing Populism are the terms used by many scholars to discuss political groups that are located between traditional conservatives and the extreme right such as neo-fascists.
As a form of right wing politics, it steps outside mainstream electoral politics, but is genrally a movement of drastic reform rathtrer than actual revolution.
Sometimes the term "far right" is used to include groups in the extreme right. 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)
- 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.