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date: 30 June 2022

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This chapter examines radical right publishers, intellectual schools, parallel organizations, voluntary associations, small groups, political sects, and families. Party and non-party sectors of the radical right share common projects. They interact with each other, and the boundaries between their memberships, social networks, and formal or informal organizations overlap. Yet the non-party sector retains important specificities. Apart from identifying its social bases, main activities, organizational forms, and ideological orientations, this chapter attends to variations across Europe and between Europe and the United States. The conclusion proposes directions for future research: (1) fill in empirical gaps that emerge from an overview of the literature, (2) examine if interaction between economic globalization and welfare protection explains the strength of the non-party sector, and (3) test the hypothesis that a centripetal party system with a weak boundary between moderate and radical right favors the non-party sector of the radical right.

Keywords: radical right publishers, intellectual schools, parallel organizations, voluntary associations, small groups, political sects

John Veugelers

John Veugelers is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His current project ties Europe’s colonial legacy to contemporary politics in explaining the rise and decline of the National Front in a French city. Other research examines the changing relations between neofascist parties and non-party organizations in postwar Italy.

Gabriel Menard

Gabriel Menard is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His dissertation examines why Great Britain and the United States have arrived at contrasting policies for regulating the Internet. His publications have appeared in Ethnic and Racial Studies, British Journal of Sociology, and Information, Communication and Society.

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