The rise and endurance of radical right movements

This 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 organi...

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Published in:Current sociology Vol. 67; no. 6; pp. 918 - 935
Main Author: Caiani, Manuela
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2019
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:
Case studies
Elections
Internet
Leadership
Literature
Mobilization
Organizational communication
Political parties
Propaganda
Radicalism
Transnationalism
Factores explicativos a nivel micro
meso and macro explanatory factors
radical right movements
movimientos de derecha radical
violence de la droite radicale
Collective mobilization
méso et macro
mobilisation collective
meso y macro
European politics
radical right violence
violencia de la derecha radical
micro
mouvements de droite radicale
movilización colectiva
politique européenne
política europea
Facteurs d’explication aux niveaux micro
ISSN:0011-3921, 1461-7064
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Summary:This 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’.
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ISSN:0011-3921
1461-7064
DOI:10.1177/0011392119868000