Obraz władzy w programach politycznych współczesnej niemieckiej skrajnej prawicy

• Authors: Agata Kałabunowska

Abstracts

EN

One of the contemporary political powers characterised by an ambivalent attitude toward state authority are extreme organisations. Agata Kałabunowska undertakes this issue in the chapter The vision of authority in political programmes of contemporary German extreme right organisations, which aims at depicting the attitude of selected radical organisations toward a broadly defined authority. Based on qualitative content analysis of political programmes, declarations and performances of five German right-wing organisations the author tackles the question about their attitude towards the actual state authority, as well as about their desired model of executing power. Several elements of the far right’ criticism towards authorities have been analysed, such as subservience to the foreign power of international organisations, faulty immigration policies, pressure within political parties or excessive bureaucratisation. The author points out that the multitude of far right’ arguments against current authorities is not equaled by quality or quantity of suggested political alternatives. The potential efficiency of suggested solutions is uncertain, which is accompanied by lack of exact vision on how to put them in practice, which makes these proposals unrealistic. What is more, due to the fact that the German extreme right does participate in the contested political game its message seems untrustworthy. The far right appears not capable – and definitely not willing – to fix the current system, allegedly depriving the nation from its real influence on the decision making process. This observation leads to the conclusion that the far right’ ideal vision of exercising power would be based on negation or distortion of current solutions. Although it was not possible to outline how this ideal would look like in details, the author concludes that we can expect from the extreme right that its imagined political authority will be inconsistent with liberal democratic rules, albeit not necessarily authoritarian nor totalitarian.

Keywords

EN

extreme right; Germany; authority; political; vision; qualitative content analysis

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta
• Journal: Facta Ficta. Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 49-66

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Agata Kałabunowska

• Instytut Zachodni w Poznaniu

• https://orcid.org/0000000227937691

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

1964823