| Date | Class | Week | Lecture |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-24 | 1 | 1 | Concepts |
| 2025-05-01 | 2 | 2 | Far-right ideology: from transnational traits to local idiosyncracies |
| 2025-05-08 | 3 | 3 | Parties: radical and extreme |
| 2025-05-15 | 4 | 4 | Parties: representatives |
| 2025-05-22 | 5 | 5 | Parties: voters |
| 2025-05-29 | 6 | 6 | Parties: responses and counter-strategies |
| 2025-06-05 | 7 | 7 | Movement-parties |
| 2025-06-12 | 8 | 8 | Mobilisation and movements |
| 2025-06-19 | 9 | 9 | Counter-mobilisation |
| 2025-06-26 | 10 | 10 | Movement decline, failure, and demobilisation |
| 2025-07-03 | 11 | 11 | Radicalisation |
| 2025-07-10 | 12 | 12 | Violence |
| 2025-07-17 | 13 | 13 | Online |
| 2025-07-24 | 14 | 14 | Studying the far right: methods, ethics, and safety |
The Far Right in Europe and beyond
Instructor: Dr. Michael C. Zeller
Email: m.zeller@lmu.de
Webpage: michaelzeller.de
Office hour: Wednesdays, 11.00 - 12.00
Office: GSI (Oettingenstr. 67) Room H105
Course particulars
- Course level: BA
- Course format: seminar
- Module assignment: P5 Vertiefung Politik in Europa
Course description
The aim of this course is to familiarise students with the social scientific research of far-right politics and protest, and to provide students with the conceptual tools and methodological clues to investigate for themselves. In this course, we will discuss the terms and conceptualisations used to study the far right and their manifestations in far-right parties and voters, mobilisation and movements, online activity, and political violence. We will consider explanations for the rise and success as well as decline and failure of the far right across these areas. Crucially, this course will cover these topics from a comparative perspective, underscoring the commonalities and variations between different contexts. In addition to considering the empirical substance of far-right phenomena, students will be encouraged to scrutinise the methodological tools applied in studies of the far right, to evaluate how well a particular methodology is answering a given research question. Taken together, students in this course will acquire knowledge about far-right activity in diverse social sphere and will hone analytical skills used to research and evaluate the far right.
Course schedule overview
Course and Teacher evaluation
Student input for the purpose of course improvement is taken very seriously and will potentially be done periodically. Please take the time to evaluate this course and the instructor, especially at the end of the semester. Evaluations will in no way affect your grade.