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New SIREN-Study available

Right-Wing extremist attitudes in Germany

By presenting the German case-study of the EU-sponsored research project SIREN, Gudrun Hentges and Malte Meyer, both political scientists at the University of Cologne, address the issue of right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany and its origins. Beginning with an instructive overview of the most important socio-economic changes in selected sectors such as railways, postal and telecommunications, they soon switch to subjective perceptions of neo-liberal restructuring and let employees speak for themselves. Since the 50 guidelinebased interviews addressed specific experiences at work as well as more general opinions on politics, an important part of the 120-pages study deals with the way people link their political attitudes with workplace routines.

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Conference on Right-Wing Populism in

SIREN Newsletter No .2 (February 2004)