Les tentatives de banalisation de l’extrême-droite dans l’entre-deux-guerres
- Submitting institution
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 96220029
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- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Les tentatives de banalisation de l’extrême droite en Europe: Sciences politiques
- Publisher
- Les éditions universitaires de Bruxelles
- ISBN
- 9782800416045
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- Does the present ‘respectable turn’ of the National Front re-rehearse the script of historic ‘fascism’ or show that the rootedness of democracy in the French ‘collective mentality’ means that there is no political future outside it. This article compares the trajectories of Front with the extreme-right Croix de Feu, which in the 1930s pursued an apparently similar strategy. It shows that in neither case is there a clear tendency towards respectability, not least because both exploited democracy’s discriminatory potential. Indeed, it is more useful to ask what is at stake in the use of terms such as ‘democracy’ and ‘fascism’.