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Performing ‘us’ and ‘other’ : Intersectional analyses of right-wing populist media
2020
Finland and Sweden share the ideal of a Nordic welfare state, with gender equality as a central tenet. In both countries, right-wing populist parties have gained prominence in mainstream politics. Despite similar political agendas at the moment, these parties have different political histories, and different modes of expressing their anti-immigration pleas. In this comparative study, we examine how the distinction between ‘us’ and the ‘other’ is performed intersectionally in terms of gender, social class, ethnicity and ‘race’, and sexuality. For this purpose, we examine empirical material collected from the party newspapers of the Finns Party and the Sweden Democrats, because their content…
“Don't Mention the War!” how Populist Right‐Wing Radicalism Became (Almost) Normal in Germany
2019
The Effects of Right-Wing Populist Communication on Emotions and Cognitions toward Immigrants
2018
The persuasiveness of right-wing populist communication has become a widely discussed topic; it is often assumed that such messages might foster anti-immigrant attitudes among citizens. The present study explores the effects of the different components of right-wing populist communication—anti-immigrant messages, populist content, and populist style—on attitudes toward immigrants. By combining a media content analysis ( N = 605 articles) with a panel survey ( N = 1,968) in metropolitan areas of four Western European countries (France, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom), this study analyzes how citizens’ attitudes toward immigrants are influenced by the right-wing populist commun…
The role of social media in the rise of right-wing populism in Finland
2021
Right-wing populism is typically entangled with xenophobic nationalism and neo-conservatism, which often usher in racism and misogyny. In this chapter, the authors take Finland as a case study to examine the role of media technology in the rise of right-wing populism. They demonstrate the strengthening of the far-right ideology on and through social media from the beginning of 2010s. It focuses on the mediated construction of two entangled ideologies in the right-wing populist movement racism and misogyny. In early spring 2020, the debate about Turkey opening its EU border to refugees made Jussi Halla-aho eagerly participate in this discussion in the parliament and on Twitter now as the cha…
Verbreitung und Entwicklung rechtsextremer Einstellungen in Ost- und Westdeutschland (Prevalence and Development of Right-Wing Extremist Attitudes in…
2020
German abstract: Vor dem Hintergrund einer gesellschaftspolitischen Polarisierung und dem Erstarken rechtspopulistischer Bewegungen und Parteien, ist eine Bestandsaufnahme rechtsextremer Einstellungen in der deutschen Bevolkerung hoch relevant und aktuell. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Verbreitung und zeitliche Entwicklung rechtsextremer Einstellungen im Ost-West-Vergleich. Dazu prufen wir zunachst die Messinvarianz des multidimensionalen Einstellungskonstrukts, was die Voraussetzung fur einen Vergleich von Mittelwerten in Ost- und Westdeutschland sowie im Zeitverlauf darstellt. Daruber hinaus untersuchen wir die Rolle etablierter Einflussfaktoren und inwieweit sich entsprechende Variablenz…
Polarisation and Electoral Realignment: The Case of the Right-Wing Parties in Spain
2020
The article analyses the consequences of elite polarisation at the mass level. We study the electoral re-alignment within the right-wing Spanish electorate in recent years, whereby support for the long-predominant Partido Popular has been eroded dramatically to the benefit of new challengers. Measuring ideological polarisation at the party system level and at the individual level, we show how the polarising strategy implemented by the liberal Ciudadanos - and imitated by PP - to gain support from the right-wing electorate paved the way for a massive transfer of conservative voters to the radical-right Vox. The results provide counter-intuitive evidence about the electoral effects of elite p…