Policy Diversification without Ideological Attenuation: The Programmatic Changes of Western European Far-Right Parties (1990-2025)
This research examines the programmatic transformations of the far right in Western Europe through two hypothesized mechanisms: the diversification of their agendas, including increased competition on socioeconomic issues, and ideological attenuation, reducing the importance given to their authoritarian and nativist positions. Using data from the Manifesto Project Database (1990-2025), the findings reveal that far-right parties…
Policy Diversification without Ideological Attenuation: The Programmatic Changes of Western European Far-Right Parties (1990–2025)
This research examines the programmatic transformations of the far right in Western Europe through two hypothesized mechanisms: the diversification of their agendas, including increased competition on socioeconomic issues, and ideological attenuation, reducing the importance given to their authoritarian and nativist positions. Using data from the Manifesto Project Database (1990–2025), the findings reveal that far-right parties…
Otherness and othering
Othering is defined as discursive processes by which problematic or inferior characteristics are assigned to groups considered different or subordinate. The construction of the ‘other’is normally based on stereotypical and reductionist ideas of different social groups, fuelling prejudice and discrimination toward the other. The out-group is usually presented as a threat to the interests of…
El populismo verde: más allá del nativismo ambiental y el populismo negacionista
La literatura sobre populismo y política verde tiende a centrarse en las posiciones climáticas y ambientales del populismo de derecha, 1 lo que ha facilitado cierta vinculación del populismo con las tesis negacionistas sobre el origen antropogénico de la degradación del planeta y la hostilidad hacia los movimientos ecologistas. El auge electoral de actores negacionistas…
Populismo y medios de comunicación: una relación compleja y ambivalente
Populismo y medios de comunicación: una relación compleja y ambivalente – Dialnet Ayuda ¿En qué podemos ayudarle? × Buscar en la ayuda Buscar Consultar la ayuda ¿En qué podemos ayudarle? × Buscar en la ayuda Buscar Consultar la ayuda Ir al contenido Dialnet Buscar Revistas Tesis Congresos métricas Ayuda Populismo y medios de comunicación: una…
Challengers or the establishment? How populists talk about populists
Several western European countries recently experienced the establishment of more than one populist actor in their party system. While we know how populists attack the political mainstream, we lack knowledge on how populists talk about other populist actors. Conducting content analysis of campaigning communication on Twitter and 23 interviews with populist MPs in Germany, Italy…
Climate sceptics or climate nationalists? Understanding and explaining populist radical right parties’ positions towards climate change (1990–2022)
Populist radical right parties are often considered to be the most extreme opponents of climate protection in Western Europe. Others predict a ‘climate nationalism’ among populist radical right parties combining nativism with a pro-climate agenda. Based on a new data set on party positions on climate change, including 485 party manifestos – 76 from populist…
Understanding and explaining populist radical right parties’ commitment to animal welfare in Western Europe
Populist radical right parties (PRRP) are considered to be supportive of domestic environmental protection. In this context, scholars stress the importance of animal welfare, arguing that nativist and authoritarian ideologies provide discursive links to the issue in multicultural Western societies. Others argue that the fascist origins of some European PRRP still manifest themselves in supportive…
The Parliamentary Behavior of Populist Parties: The Spanish Case
Esta investigación analiza el comportamiento de los partidos populistas españoles en el Congreso de los Diputados. Para ello, se han analizado el tipo de iniciativas presentadas y los patrones de votación en la cámara, así como las agendas temáticas de Unidas Podemos y Vox en las XII y XIV legislaturas. La literatura sugiere que los…
El comportamiento parlamentario de los partidos populistas
Esta investigación analiza el comportamiento de los partidos populistas españoles en el Congreso de los Diputados. Para ello, se han analizado el tipo de iniciativas presentadas y los patrones de votación en la cámara, así como las agendas temáticas de Unidas Podemos y Vox en las XII y XIV legislaturas. La literatura sugiere que los…





Óscar G. Luengo
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