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L’Europeizzazione degli attori domestici: policy networks, mobilitazione e frames sull’Europa
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The rise and endurance of radical right movements
No full textThis article reviews the scholarship on radical right movements in Europe. It focuses on three strands of this literature: first, the macro-level contextual opportunities-based explanations for the fortunes of these movements; second, internal supply-side approaches, referring to the internal organizational resources – leadership, communication and propaganda – that support the mobilization; and third, the individual (micro-level) factors of the emergence and the rise of radical right movements. The goal is to shed light on all these different approaches to explain the ‘Who’, ‘When’, ‘How’ and ‘Why’ of the emergence and (violent) mobilization of radical right groups, using empirical evidence drawn from various case studies in Western, Eastern and Central Europe. This is a topic often neglected in the academic literature on the radical right, which still focuses mainly on political parties and elections. The article concludes by discussing possible future directions for radical right movement research, including the transnationalization of the radical right, the usage of the Internet and radical right ‘movement parties’
Visual Analysis and the Contentious Politics of the Radical Right
Full text linkAlthough images are very important for political actors and social movements, including the radical right (RR), empirical studies still rarely integrate visual material as relevant data for understanding radical right politics. This article outlines this new and growing field of research (i.e., visuality and the RR), critically reviewing existing studies from the perspective of both visual studies of social movements and contentious politics, which are rarely applied to the RR, and the methodology of working with images, offering empirical case studies (European and beyond) to illustrate the argument. The findings reveal the main functions of the use of visuals for the radical right, as well as the benefits (but also the challenges) of studying radical right politics through the lens of visual analysis. A conceptual framework is proposed to capture this dominant visual politics of the radical right. As shown, two dimensions emerge as the most theoretically relevant for the radical right: The discursive meaning of images (the story itself, telling the story, eliciting the story) and the communicative function of images (visual expression by the movement or others, visibility), which combine agency and addressee
The populist parties and their electoral success: different causes behind different populisms? The case of the Five-star Movement and the League
No full textIn this article, we focus on the reasons for the success of the populist parties in Italy, relating them to the political, economic and cultural–migration crises and to the role played by these crises in the political discourse of the two populist parties currently in office in the country: the Movimento Cinque Stelle (Five-star Movement, M5s) and the League. The article underlines the importance of the distinction between different types of populism (in terms of their main aims and the main driving forces behind them) and the ways in which they complement one another. It also considers the tensions that exist between them when diagnosing the country’s problems and when drawing up proposals to tackle them, as well as identifying the people – voters – whose support they each seek to attract. The discussion will end by suggesting that the frame of reference provided by the comparative literature remains relevant and useful as a means of understanding internal politics in Italy, with an emphasis on the importance of the ‘construction’ of the crisis (or crises) by the various actors
Framing and social movements
No full textThis article explores the notion and method of discourse and frame analysis in social movement studies. Different cases of frame analysis applied to various types of social movements and contentious politics in Europe are used to illustrate the argument. As stressed in the introduction to this special issue, although the concept of frame and framing is used in several disciplines and approaches in the cognitive, language and social sciences, research on social movements still presents some gaps. One is the prevalent application of frame analysis approach to progressive left wing movements, leaving aside actors on the Right. A second weakness is the scarcity of empirical research combining the micro (i.e. activists) and meso (i.e. organizations) level of framing and exploring dynamics of frame ‘(dis-)alignment’. Third, there is mainly a focus on the framing of national rather than transnational contention, although as this article shows, social movement research is increasing on this regard. The fourth weakness is the scarcity of applications of framing and frame analysis to collective actors and policies - a promising line of research to which social movement studies could make valuable contributions. This article will address these issues to highlight promising venues of research and application in social movement studies
Come misurare il populismo
Full text linkThis article offers an illustration of the most diffused definitions and indicators for the measurement of populism in social research, with reference to original and innovative methods applied by social and political research
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