Guardians of Democracy? On the Response of Civil Society Organisations to Right-Wing Extremism

Description

This project expands on the understanding of the role civil society organisations (CSOs) play in counteracting right-wing extremism. Drawing on central strands in the defending democracy literature, the aims of the project is to introduce a typology to classify the responses of CSOs to right-wing extremism. Furthermore, the project contributes empirically by exploring how various type of local CSOs in the Swedish town of Ludvika responded to the foremost neo-Nazi movement in the Nordic countries, namely the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), prior to and after the 2018 Swedish election.

Financiers

• Municipality of Ludvika
• Save the children

Selected publications

• Lundberg, Erik. Different Types, Different Reactions? How Civil Society Organizations Respond to Right-wing Extremism, VOLUNTAS - International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2023, Vol. 34, No. 5, 1002-1013. Artikel : refereegranskat. 
• Lundberg, Erik. Guardians of Democracy? : On the Response of Civil Society Organisations to Right-Wing Extremism, Scandinavian Political Studies, 2021, Vol. 44, No. 2, 170-194. Artikel : refereegranskat.