While the far-right is indeed ascendant in several Eastern European countries, its threat is decreasing in Western Europe. That’s the conclusion of the Political Capital Institute’s Demand for Right-Wing Extremism (DEREX) Index.
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The extreme-right wing is in demand – at least in Eastern Europe. That’s the conclusion of the Political Capital Institute’s Demand for Right-Wing Extremism (DEREX) Index, which measures and compares people’s predisposition to far right-wing politics in 32 countries using data from the European Social Survey. Turkey, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Hungary show the strongest demand for discriminatory, anti-establishment and authoritarian ideologies.
In Hungary, the number of potential right-wing extremists more than doubled from 10 percent in 2003 to 21 percent in 2009. In this regard, Hungary is the exception that disproves the rule: Political Capital’s study rebuts the oft-cited notion that the far right-wing’s social base has been expanding across Europe in recent years. While the far-right is indeed ascendant in several Eastern European countries, its threat is decreasing in Western Europe.
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This is partly because in Western Europe, the extreme-right’s main appeal lies in its anti-immigration policies, a subject that rarely leads people to reject the political establishment as a whole. In Eastern Europe, prejudice and anti-Gypsy attitudes are closely linked to opposition to the political system, distrust and general malaise. This combination can pose a major threat to stability.
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