CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Csicsai, Peter |
|---|---|
| Title | Organized Intolerance Examining a Right-Wing Extremist Social Movement in Post-Communist Slovakia: The Case of the Skinheads |
| Summary | The primary aim of conducting this study is to provide a systematic analysis of the Skinhead movement within a scholarly debate and to offer general policy recommendations that can be utilized as sources of advise for addressing the problems associated with the recent proliferation of discriminatory, racist and nationalistic sentiments in Slovakia. Considering the negative social consequences of racially motivated organized activity in Slovakia, this study argues that it is absolutely imperative to preclude further development of the Skinhead movement through strategic policy developments. This study analyzes the socio-economic and political effects of the post-socialist transition with reference to the emergence of the Skinhead movement and draws on existing theoretical scholarship concerned with the micro-social and family psycho-dynamics underpinning the choice to become a movement member. Consequently, the emergence of the Skinhead movement in post-socialist Slovakia should not only be perceived as a response to the disrupted family psycho-dynamics, decreasing educational standards, soaring unemployment rates and substance abuse patterns that have plagued Slovakia since the fall of communism, but also as a reaction to the socio-economic retrenchment and political instability that has provided new opportunity structures for the rise of extremist ideologies. |
| Supervisor | Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/csicsai_peter.pdf |
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