How the populist radical right exploits crisis: comparing the role of proximity in the COVID-19 and refugee crises in Germany

IF 4.5 1区 社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE West European Politics Pub Date : 2023-11-21 DOI:10.1080/01402382.2023.2275892
Markus Hinterleitner, Valentina Kammermeier, Benjamin Moffitt
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This article studies the conditions required by populist radical right actors to convincingly create a sense of crisis. The article draws on the literature on political blame games and policy feedback to argue that it is not only the salience of an event that determines its ‘populist exploitability’, but also its proximity to mass publics – or more simply, how directly and closely it affects citizens. In the study, Moffitt’s stepwise model of populist crisis performance is extended and expectations are formulated regarding how the proximity of an event influences the various steps of crisis performance. The article then tests this theoretical argument with a within-unit analysis of the crisis performance of a populist radical right party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), during the refugee crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis suggests that the pan-demic’s proximity to people’s daily lives narrowed and complicated the AfD’s crisis performance in important ways. The article sheds light on the determinants of the success of populist radical right parties and nuances our understanding of the broader relationship between populism and crisis.
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民粹主义激进右翼如何利用危机:比较距离在 COVID-19 和德国难民危机中的作用
本文研究了激进右翼民粹主义行动者令人信服地制造危机感所需的条件。文章借鉴了有关政治指责游戏和政策反馈的文献,认为决定 "民粹主义可利用性 "的不仅是事件的显著性,还有事件与大众的接近程度--或者更简单地说,事件对公民的直接和密切影响程度。在这项研究中,莫菲特的民粹主义危机表现分步模型得到了扩展,并就事件的接近程度如何影响危机表现的各个步骤提出了预期。然后,文章通过对民粹主义激进右翼政党德国选择党(AfD)在难民危机和 COVID-19 大流行期间的危机表现进行单元内分析,检验了这一理论论点。分析表明,大流行病与人们日常生活的密切关系以重要的方式缩小并复杂化了德国选择党的危机表现。文章揭示了民粹主义激进右翼政党成功的决定因素,并使我们对民粹主义与危机之间更广泛关系的理解更加细致入微。
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West European Politics
West European Politics POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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期刊介绍: West European Politics (WEP)has established itself as one of the most authoritative journals covering political and social issues in Western Europe. It has a substantial reviews section and coverage of all national elections in Western Europe. Its comprehensive scope, embracing all the major political and social developments in all West European countries, including the European Union, makes it essential reading for both political practitioners and academics.
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