CDSn4101 Far Right and Left Parties

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Věra Stojarová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Catherine Girard (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jiří Němec (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Věra Stojarová, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites
The course is designed for graduate students of CDS.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course focuses on the European far right and left parties. The module offers an understanding of far right and left party families in Europe, definition, identification, explanatory models, coherent conceptual and empirical framework to study party families.
Learning outcomes
student will be able to state main concepts of far right and far left parties and describe the main holders of contemporary far right and far left parties.
Syllabus
  • Course structure: 1. Introduction into the module. 2. LECTURE: Conceptualisation of far right and far left. Terminology. 3. LECTURE: Far Right: Case study France FN 4. LECTURE: Far Right in Austria (FPO, BZO) 5. LECTURE: Scandinavian: Swedish democrats SD 6. LECTURE: Case study Central Europe: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic. 7. LECTURE: Far Right: Balkans. 8. Mid-term test 9. LECTURE: Overview of European far left. 10. LECTURE: The German Far Left: a success story. Literature: (42 pp) 11. LECTURE: Far Left: French and Italian radical left: failure? 12. Far Left in Eastern Europe: 13. Pre-term test
Literature
    required literature
  • • Mattheis, Ashely. 2018. “Shieldmaidens of Whiteness: (Alt) Maternalism and Women Recruiting for the Far/Alt Right.” Journal for Deradicalization, no 17 (December): 128-62. https://journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/jd/article/view/177 (35 pages)
  • • Mudde, Cas. The populist radical right: a pathological normalcy. Willby Brandt Series of WP. 3/07. (18 pp)
  • • Nebřenský, Z. Early Voices of Dissent: Czechoslovak Student Opposition at the Beginning of the 1960s. In: Klimke, Pekelder, Scharloth eds. Between Prague Spring and French May. Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960–1980. Berghahn 2011. Pp. 32-48. Avai
  • • RUUD KOOPMANS & JASPER MUIS. The rise of right-wing populist Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands: A discursive opportunity approach. European Journal of Political Research 48: 642–664, 2009. (22 pp)
  • • Fagerholm, Andreas. What is Left for radical Left?. A comparative examination of the policies of radical left parties in western Europe before and after 1989, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 25:1, 16-40, DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2016.1148592 Ava
  • • Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris. Trump and the Populist Authoritarian Parties. The Silent Revolution in Reverse. Perspectives on Politics. 4/2017. At https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/trump-and-the-populist-aut
  • • Cas Mudde. The Study of Populist Radical Right Parties: Towards a Fourth Wave, University of Oslo and University of Georgia. (22 pp). At http://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/publications/c-rex-working-paper-series/Cas%20Mudde%3A%20The%20Study%20of%20Popu
  • • Buštíková, Lenka. The radical right in Eastern Europe. In: Rydgren, Jens (eds). The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right. Oxford 2018. (22pp).
  • • March, Luke. Contemporary Far Left Parties in Europe. From Marxism to the Mainstream: Berlin: Fridrich Ebert Stiftung 2008. At http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/id/ipa/05818.pdf. (21 pp)
  • • Bowman, Emma, and Ian Stewart. 2017. “The Women Behind The ‘Alt-Right.’” NPR, August 20, 2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544134546/the-women-behind-the-alt-right
  • • Melzer, Ralf, Serafin, Sebastian (eds.) Right Wing Extremism in Europe. Berlin: FES, 255-281 (26 pp). At https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/dialog/10031.pdf.
  • • Christoffer Kølvraa and Bernhard Forchtner (2019). Cultural imaginaries of the extreme right: an introduction. Patterns of Prejudice. 53:3. 227-235 pp.
  • CHIOCCHETTI, Paolo. The radical left party family in Western Europe, 1989-2015. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis group, 2017, xviii, 235. ISBN 9781138656185. info
  • CHIOCCHETTI, Paolo. The radical left party family in Western Europe, 1989-2015. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis group, 2017, xviii, 235. ISBN 9781138656185. info
  • STOJAROVÁ, Věra. The Far Right in the Balkans. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2013, 173 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-8973-2. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, seminars
Assessment methods
1) Presentation and leading further discussion (10 points, therefore 10 %) 2) Paper (20 points, therefore 20 %) 3) Oral exam via zoom(63 points, therefore 70 % )
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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