List of figures and tables
Introduction Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, and Ronald Wintrobe
Part I. Extremism and Rationality: 1. The crippled epistemology of extremism Russell Hardin
2. Leadership and passion in extremist politics Ronald Wintrobe
3. Information control, loss of autonomy, and the emergence of political extremism Albert Breton and Silvana Dalmazzone
Part II. Extremism in Constitutional Democracies: 4. Extremism and monomania Pierre Salmon
5. Some democratic propensities for extreme results Geoffrey Brennan
6. Strategic positioning and campaigning Amihai Glazer
7. At the outskirts of the constitution Gianluigi Galeotti
8. Is democracy an antidote to extremism? Harold Hochman
Part III. Extremism in Non-Democratic Settings: 9. The political life cycle of extremist organizations Mario Ferrero
10. Rationally violent tactics: evidence from modern Islamic fundamentalism Luisa Giurato and Maria Cristina Molinari
11. De Bello Omniumi Contra Omnesj Guido Ortona
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