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Transnational issue agendas of the radical right? Parties’ Facebook campaign communication in six countries during the 2019 European Parliament election

“…We have observed that the issues uniting RRPs transnationally are (1) emphasising immigration, (2) blaming elites; and (3) mobilisation and campaign communication for the EP election, though with varying degrees of intensity. In other words, the transnationally recurring set of common issues reflects their shared ‘thin ideology’ (Mudde, 2007; Poier et al, 2017) of populism, their nativist ideological core that plays out in the immigration issue, and the specific election context. The differences that we have found, for example, regarding the specific appropriations of the immigration topic, are in line with the diverse elements that define nativeness in a party's ideology, such as the strong cultural element of SD's ideology, whereas religious aspects are more important for other parties.…”

“…Against the backdrop of this ideology, RRPs have been found to mobilise on immigration, identity politics and nationalism, anti-globalisation and Euroscepticism, law and order, and immigrants’ criminal conduct (Poier et al, 2017; for the crime aspect, see Smith, 2010) on the national level. However, we lack further evidence on whether RRPs’ communication is confined to national issues or whether they have established a Europeanised agenda with shared issues and positions on a transnational level.…”