TY  - RPRT
A1  - Weidinger, Bernhard
T1  - The far right in Austria: small on the streets, big in parliament
T2  - sicherheitspolitik-blog.de
N2  - This is the ninth article in our series Trouble on the­ Far-Right.
Since around 1990, the state of the Austrian far right1 has been characterized by the strength of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ – Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, more precisely translated as Freedomite Party of Austria2) and the relative weakness of extra-parliamentarian far right activism. Far from a mere coincidence, these two features are to be understood as closely linked: the FPÖ’s electoral successes have brought far right causes and talking points unto the political center stage on a national level, given them ample media coverage and made street militancy increasingly pointless. Insofar, the Austrian far right spectrum could – at least until recently – be described as a photographic negative of the situation in Germany: successful party politics, weak bottom-up mobilizations and a comparatively low incidence of street violence. Currently, however, the long held hopes of German right-wingers for a party both in the mold, and strength, of the FPÖ are apparently being fulfilled by the emergence of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). Conversely, both legal and illegal street activism have been on the rise in Austria in recent years, particularly since the start of the asylum crisis in Europe. Numerous violent incidents were reported in 2015, including a minimum of 25 attacks on housing facilities for asylum seekers.
KW  - AfD
KW  - Austria
KW  - Burschenschaften
KW  - facebook
KW  - FPÖ
KW  - hate speech
KW  - Heinz-Christian Strache
KW  - identitarians
KW  - Jörg Haider
KW  - social media
KW  - student fraternities
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/39752
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-397526
UR  - http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/2016/04/06/the-far-right-in-austria-small-on-the-streets-big-in-parliament/
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CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -