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Political and public debates unfolding online provide various spaces for interaction between political actors, citizens and media outlets. This environment can be employed for diverse agendas, frames and biases, especially within populist narratives. This work examines the discourse of Central and Eastern European right-wing populists from Austria, Germany, Hungary and Poland (2015-2021). To identify discursive patterns within public Facebook posts (n=192,057) by 31 party, movement and partisan news media pages, created by API interrogation, right-wing discourse is analyzed through semi-automated quantitative content analysis based on text mining, in conjunction with qualitative content analysis of messages that generated the highest engagement-rates (n=80). Key findings indicate both national and international narrative patterns with a focus on political, social and ethnic opponents, by incorporating Engesser et al.'s (2017) core elements of right-wing populist discourse within Master Populist Frame building (Heinisch & Mazzoleni, 2017), thus marking the contemporary agenda of European right-wing discourse.

Seeks to clarify the concepts of right-wing extremism and neofascism and compares the ideologies of right-wing extremist parties in the major European countries after the Second World War. In comparing electoral support for these parties, 3 periods can be discerned: post-war neo-fascism based on underprivileged groups closely linked to the old regime; a newer wave of social deprivation in the period of rapid growth producing groups of the Poujadist type; a third phase caused by unemployment and xenophobia at the end of a long, prosperous period. Finally, theories of the rise of right-wing extremism are examined. (Abstract amended)

Right-wing radicalism may be expressed by actual voting, by voting intentions or by a specific attitude syndrome. Since voting behaviour is neither the only nor the best indicator of an affinity towards right-wing radicalism this affinity is tested by a multiple-indicator approach. Shows that right-wing radicalism is more widespread than could be expected from an analysis of voting patterns alone. Findings fit neatly into a complex theory of right-wing extremist parties as an almost ubiquitous phenomenon which is not only rooted in social structure and the strains of modern society but also in a particular kind of personality structure. (Abstract amended)

The political system of the Federal Republic has proved to be extraordinarily flexible and integrative, so that right-wing extremist activities have never posed a serious threat to democracy. Although organised right-wing extremism has never become a mass movement, anti-democratic and even anti-Semitic attitudes are widespread. Hitherto, the bourgeois-democratic parties have managed to effect an electoral integration, but the integrative capacity of the political system could be weakened by economic and political crises and lead to revitalisation of the extreme right. (Abstract amended)

Investigates the nature and rise to power of the New Suburban Right (NSR); considers NSR views of the proper place of local government from the perspectives of centre and periphery; looks at strategies of change at the local level, and at the legislative and rhetorical responses of government; assesses the implications of the NSR for local government. (RSM)

Der Sammelband "Right-wing extremism" hat ein doppeltes Ziel. Zum einen soll er das Nationale Forschungsprogramm 40plus und seine Projekte präsentieren (die alle mit Beiträgen präsent sind), zum anderen sollen diese nationalen Beiträge in eine internationale Perspektive gestellt werden, sodass in der Übersicht und Umschau eine Verortung der schweizerischen Forschung (und damit auch des NFP40plus selbst) und ihrer Resultate möglich wird. Eingeladen wurden dazu führende europäische Forscher auf dem Gebiet des Rechtsextremismus

YouTube is the most used social network in the United States and the only major platform that is more popular among right-leaning users. We propose the "Supply and Demand" framework for analyzing politics on YouTube, with an eye toward understanding dynamics among right-wing video producers and consumers. We discuss a number of novel technological affordances of YouTube as a platform and as a collection of videos, and how each might drive supply of or demand for extreme content. We then provide large-scale longitudinal descriptive information about the supply of and demand for conservative political content on YouTube. We demonstrate that viewership of far-right videos peaked in 2017.

While the field of research in right-wing populism has recently been blossoming and is expanding, a systematic look into the interface of right-wing Populism and Gender is still missing, even though gender issues are omnipresent in discourses of the radical right ranging from "ethnosexism" against immigrants, to "anti-genderism". The volume seeks to strengthen the analysis of the intersection of gender and race as constitutional for radical right discourse. The contributions investigate from different European perspectives the ways in which gender is used as an arena and as an epistemological platform for the ordering and hierarchization of political objectives

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Right-Wing Populism and Gender: A Preliminary Cartography of an Emergent Field of Research -- Authoritarian Right-Wing Populism as Masculinist Identity Politics. The Role of Affects -- Why Gender and Sexuality are both Trivial and Pivotal in Populist Radical Right Politics -- Sexual Politics from the Right. Attacks on Gender, Sexual Diversity, and Sex Education -- Post-Socialist Conditions and the Orbán Government's Gender Politics between 2010 and 2019 in Hungary -- Man, Woman, Family. Gender and the Limited Modernization of Right-Wing Extremism in Austria -- Sexual Politics as a Tool to "Un-Demonize" Right-Wing Discourses in France -- Identitarian Gays and Threatening Queers, Or: How the Far Right Constructs New Chains of Equivalence -- Why Are Women Attracted to Right-Wing Populism? Sexual Exceptionalism, Emancipation Fatigue, and New Maternalism -- Populist Mobilizations in Re-Traditionalized Society: Anti-Gender Campaigning in Slovenia -- 'You're Fired!' Retrotopian Desire and Right-Wing Class Politics -- The Alternative Right, Masculinities, and Ordinary Affect -- Angry Women: Poland's Black Protests as 'Populist Feminism' -- Intersectionality Strikes Back: Right-Wing Patterns of En-Gendering and Feminist Contestations in the Americas -- Acknowledgements -- List of image sources -- Authors

"This study of the German right-extremist movement looks at the three rightist political parties, neo-Nazi groups, skinhead gangs, and New Right intellectuals. It poses the question whether, at a time of global recession, the existing democratic system is resilient enough to meet the challenges posed by the xenophobic and racist groups"--Provided by publisher