Media contributions
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Title Right-wing political extremism in the Great Depression Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 27/02/2012 Description The enduring global crisis is giving rise to fears that economic hard times will feed political extremism, as it did in the 1930s. This column suggests that the danger of political polarisation and extremism is greatest in countries with relatively recent histories of democracy, with existing right-wing extremist parties, and with electoral systems that create low hurdles to parliamentary representation of new parties. But above all, it is greatest where depressed economic conditions are allowed to persist. URL voxeu.org/article/right-wing-political-extremism-great-depression Persons Alan de Bromhead