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Overview

Hans-Georg Betz is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with particular focus on subfields such as sociology and political science as well as political science and international relations.

Their scholarly work concentrates on topics including Italian fascism and post-war society, communism, protests and social movements, the history and impact of the World Wars, and populism with a focus on right-wing movements.

Recent publications by Hans-Georg Betz include:

  • Buchbesprechungen, 2022, published in Totalitarismus und Demokratie
  • Fascism, 2021, published in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

The venues where they most frequently publish feature the areas of political and social theory, with titles such as Totalitarismus und Demokratie and The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology.

Hans-Georg Betz has collaborated with a number of coauthors including:

  • Christopher S. Allen
  • Henry Kreikenbom
  • John Leslie
  • Andrei S. Markovits
  • Ann Lee Phillips

Best Publications

  • Radical right-wing populism in Western Europe

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • Globalization, the welfare state and right-wing populism in Western Europe

    Duane Swank;Hans-Georg Betz

  • The new politics of the right

    H.-G. Betz;S. Immerfall

  • The new politics of the right : neo-populist parties and movements in established democracies

    Hans-Georg Betz;Stefan Immerfall

  • Against the current—stemming the tide: the nostalgic ideology of the contemporary radical populist right

    Hans‐Georg Betz;Carol Johnson

  • Revisiting Lepanto: the political mobilization against Islam in contemporary Western Europe

    Hans-Georg Betz;Susi Meret

  • Conditions Favouring the Success and Failure of Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Contemporary Democracies

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • The Two Faces of Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • Postmodernism and the New Middle Class

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • Exclusionary Populism in Austria, Italy, and Switzerland

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • La droite populiste en Europe : extrême et démocrate ?

    Hans-Georg Betz;Geneviève Brzustowski;Pascal Perrineau

  • Xenophobia, Identity Politics and Exclusionary Populism in Western Europe

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • Politics of Resentment: Right-Wing Radicalism in West Germany

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • Radical-Right and Neo-Fascist Political Parties in Western Europe@@@Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe@@@The Extreme Right in Europe and the USA@@@The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis@@@Encounters with the Contemporary Radical Right

    Roger Karapin;Hans-Georg Betz;Paul Hainsworth;Herbert Kitschelt

  • The Growing Threat of the Radical Right

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • The new polit ics of resent ment: radical right- wing popu list parties in Western Europe

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  • Rechtspopulismus in Westeuropa: Aktuelle Entwicklungen und politische Bedeutung

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • Nativism Across Time and Space

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • Right-wing Populist Parties and the Working Class Vote:What Have You Done for Us Lately?

    Hans-Georg Betz;Susi Meret

  • The Radical Right and Populism

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • Facets of nativism: a heuristic exploration

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • Do they make a difference? The policy influence of radical right populist parties in Western Europe

    Benjamin Biard;Laurent Bernhard;Hans-Georg Betz

  • Right-wing Populist Parties and the Working Class Vote

    Hans-Georg Betz;Susi Meret

  • The Two Faces of Radical Right-Wing Populism

    Hans-Georg Betz

  • The National Front and French Politics: The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen

    Hans-Georg Betz

Frequent Co-Authors

Duane Swank
Duane Swank Marquette University
Herbert Kitschelt
Herbert Kitschelt Duke University
Walter Laqueur
Walter Laqueur Center for Strategic and International Studies
William E. Scheuerman
William E. Scheuerman Indiana University

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