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NOWA SKRAJNA PRAWICA W DANII A KONFLIKT KULTUROWY
THE NEW RIGHT WING IN DENMARK AND THE CULTURE CLASH

Author(s): Tomasz Archutowski
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwa AGH
Keywords: new far-right; Danish People’s Party; culture clash; populism

Summary/Abstract: Just within sixteen years since its emergence the Danish People’s Party (Dansk Folkeparti) has reached the status of the third biggest political party in Denmark. Gaining such considerable voter’s support by a new far-right, populist party in Denmark, a country having a reputation of a stable, well-established democracy provokes a broader analysis of this phenomenon. The main goal of the paper is therefore to fi nd an answer to the question about possible factors that have contributed to the popularity of the new far-right in Denmark. In the paper I make an effort to prove that an essential infl uence on the popularity of the new far-right has the culture clash. I analyse the term culture clash on two planes – as a clash of the ideas of postmaterialism with the traditional sociocultural values and as a clash between Western culture and the values represented by immigrants coming to Denmark from mostly muslim countries.

  • Issue Year: 10/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 23-33
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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