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Civil Democracy Protection: Success Conditions of Non-Governmental Organisations in Comparison book cover

1st Edition

Civil Democracy Protection Success Conditions of Non-Governmental Organisations in Comparison

Edited By Uwe Backes, Thomas Lindenberger Copyright 2024
262 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Civil Democracy Protection is an overview of attempts by organisations to oppose groups that are perceived to threaten democracy. The book traces the history of civil democracy protection actors from the establishment of democratic constitutional states up to the present day and develops a set of systematic and comparative approaches. The central question it explores is: What significance do... Read more

Introduction  

UWE BACKES AND THOMAS LINDENBERGER  

 

PART I: Historical forerunners  

 

1 On the creation, destruction, and reformation of democratic protectionism: Human rights leagues in France and Germany  

DOMINIK RIGOLL  

 

2 The Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold: Militant democrats in the Weimar Republic  

SEBASTIAN ELSBACH  

 

3 University in an emergency? Transnational networks of professors’ counterprotest against the student movement of 1968  

NIKOLAI WEHRS

 

4 The Role of the Anti-Defamation League in combating extremism  

GEORGE MICHAEL  

 

 

PART II: Country reports  

 

5 Germany: Promoting democratic values – Political foundations as actors of civil democracy protection  

TOM MANNEWITZ  

 

6 Austria: “Protecting democracy” in the context of an established far-right Lager – counterprotest against a far-right ball  

MANÈS WEISSKIRCHER  

 

7 Netherlands: Civil democracy protection and the marginal role of anti-extremist organisations  

SEBASTIAAN VAN LEUNEN AND PAUL LUCARDIE  

 

8 Belgium: Civil society and the protection of democracy

DIRK ROCHTUS  

 

9 France: Civil society and the protection of democracy  

JEAN-YVES CAMUS  

 

10 England: Strengthening democracy between the state and society – the example of the Big Society programme

ISABELLE-CHRISTINE PANRECK  

 

 

PART III: Comparative studies  

 

11 Transnational cooperation between anti-extremist civil society organisations in Europe  

MIROSLAV MAREŠ  

 

12 Civil democracy protection in (East) Germany: perspectives from the field  

LISA BENDIEK AND MICHAEL NATTKE  

 

13 Conditions of success for civil society organisations protecting democracy

UWE BACKES  

 

Biography

Uwe Backes is Deputy Director at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies and Professor of Political Science at the TUD (Dresden University of Technology). His research focuses on extremism, democracy, and autocratic rule.

Thomas Lindenberger is Director at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies and Professor for Totalitarianism Research at the TUD (Dresden University of Technology). His research focuses on the comparative contemporary history of Germany and Europe and the history of communism and postcommunist transformation.

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