Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2269383
Adrian Favero, Mattia Zulianello
ABSTRACTWhile the literature has widely explored the organisational strategies of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) on the fringes, little is known about the grassroots activism of mainstream PRRPs. We focus on the Italian League and the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), two mainstream PRRPs that have a long pedigree of government experience, to investigate if, how and why they invest in extensive activities at the local level to reach the public, despite their pivotal position in the national political scene. Methodologically, we rely on 120 interviews with members and representatives of these two PRRPs to identify the key grassroots activities they carry out at the local level and their perceived goals. The analysis reveals that despite their mainstream status, both the League and SVP still perceive to suffer from stigmatisation and demonisation, as they are not fully accepted as legitimate actors by the public. For this reason, they engage in grassroots activities and activism at the local level, the one closest to the everyday life and concerns of ordinary citizens. Grassroots activism aims to improve the legitimacy of PRRPs, by delivering the idea that their members and activists are normal people committed to help the local communities and not extremists.KEYWORDS: Populist radical rightgrassroots activismparty organisationstigmatisationlocal politics Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2269383Notes1. In the following pages, interviews are cited using abbreviations: the letter R stands for ‘representative’, while the letter M refers to ‘members’.Additional informationFundingThis research is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), (Grant Ref: ES/R011540/1), The survival of the mass party: Evaluating activism and participation among populist radical right parties (PRRPs) in Europe.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2267999
Stefano Greco
ABSTRACTFrom a bottom-up perspective, cleavage theory links the socio-economic trends existing in the political community with the shape acquired by party politics. Globalization and European integration impacted European society, creating novel socio-economic divides and bringing new social, cultural and economic issues into the political discussion. The impact of the novel cleavage over the pre-existent societal socio-political fractures acquires a central role in the study of European Union politicization. Deploying critical discourse analysis (CDA) and discourse-historical approach (DHA), this study aims to comprehend how the emergence of a novel cleavage has influenced the discourse of the mainstream European parties. The manifestos of the European Christian democratic, socialist and liberal parties from the last three European Parliament elections are analyzed to assess the contemporary relevance of the left-right political competition in a scenario characterized by the salience gained by transnational issues and the electoral success of populist elites.KEYWORDS: European party politicscritical discourse analysisdemocratic legitimacyEuropean integrationsocio-political studiestransnational democracy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2199657
"Publishers Note." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 31(4), p. 1047This article refers to:Fanning the flames? An exploration of EU discourse on culture in the Eastern Partnership
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Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2251000
Natasza Styczyńska, Jan D. Meijer
ABSTRACTThere is a notable correlation between Eurosceptic and populist political actors, discourses and agendas across Europe. Since 2015, the ongoing conflict between Poland and the European Commission concerning the rule of law has brought European integration to the centre of Polish politics. The main focus of this article is on the relationship and interaction between populism and Euroscepticism, as analysed through the example of Polish political parties. To this end, the article investigates the different forms of EU contestation by Polish populist right-wing parties and assesses the extent to which these are expressed through populist discourse. We find a strong correlation between populist and Eurosceptic attitudes of Polish political parties. With the growing number of populist parties entering the mainstream and ‘uncivil society’ actors transforming into political parties, the anti-elitist discourse generates a need to locate the ‘corrupted elites’ outside of the national power structures.KEYWORDS: PopulismEuroscepticismpolitical partiesPolanduncivil society Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The chapter is the result of the authors work within the project of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 822682. It reflects only the authors view and the Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.2. Later events, such as the Belarusian border crisis and the war in Ukraine, have further impacted the narratives on Poland’s place in Europe, but fall outside of the timeframe covered in this study.Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the Horizon 2020 [822682].
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Pub Date : 2023-09-14DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2257065
Alina Carrozzini
"Understanding the EU as a good global actor ambitions, values and metrics." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
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Pub Date : 2023-09-03DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2254643
Paul Dermine
{"title":"EU Fiscal Capacity – Legal Integration after COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine","authors":"Paul Dermine","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2254643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2254643","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84429316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2244911
Vladimír Naxera, Vojtěch Kaše, Ondřej Stulík
{"title":"‘The more populism types you know, the better political scientist you are?’ Machine-learning based meta-analysis of populism types in the political science literature","authors":"Vladimír Naxera, Vojtěch Kaše, Ondřej Stulík","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2244911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2244911","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72449521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-29DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2241832
Mario Kölling, J. Hernández-Moreno
{"title":"The Multiannual financial framework 2021–2027 and Next Generation EU - A turning point of EU multi-level governance?","authors":"Mario Kölling, J. Hernández-Moreno","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2241832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2241832","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78111834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-25DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2241021
C. Kaunert, G. Bosse, A. Vieira
ABSTRACT The European Union (EU) is making strong inroads into areas of security traditionally reserved to states. Security concerns are increasingly triggered by fundamental challenges, such as terrorism, climate change, migration, and many other ‘soft security issues’. Resilience has become a term of reference in the EU’s official foreign policy discourse, triggering an associated ‘resilience. Our contribution aims to analyse the ‘many faces of resilience’ in the EU’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) in relation to how the EU understands and seeks to enhance European security, mapping the different meanings the terms assume in the EU’s discourses and policy practices, and how they are related to one another. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has largely been viewed as an extraordinary resilience test for the EU and has brought back fundamental concerns on European security, including ‘hard’ military security issues. This has in turn raised questions not only on how the EU can ensure the resilience of its eastern partners and of itself, but also on the EU’s role in a rapidly changing global context of polarisation and fragmentation. In light of these challenges, the contributions to this special issue have only increased in relevance, pointing to pathways and opportunities for how the EU may reconcile the contradictory demands of fostering security and resilience for states and societies alike.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2235598
Valeria Bello
{"title":"Radicalisation and radicalism: the double face of prejudice in the Spanish case of the Neo-Nazi group Hogar Social (2014–2019)","authors":"Valeria Bello","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2235598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2235598","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86897740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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