Emotional Mobilization: The Affective Underpinnings of Right-Wing Populist Party Support

Betz, Hans‐Georg; Oswald, Michael

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“…Yet despite this "affective turn, " important gaps can still be found in the literature-even when it comes to the party family that is by far best studied by political scientists: the populist radical right (Mudde, 2016, p. 2). In particular, we know little about the role of affect in the political supply of these parties (Betz and Oswald, 2022). This article has therefore taken up the suggestion of Betz and Oswald (2022), p. 136 to explore how PRRPs "concretely appeal to emotions, what tropes and rhetorical devices they use to evoke and elicit an affective response among their target audience. "…”

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“…Existing studies point at structurally different forms of resentment mobilization by the actors that are most frequently associated with "the politics of resentment": i.e., populist radical left-wing parties, on the one hand, and populist radical rightwing parties, on the other (e.g., Betz and Oswald, 2022). The political programs of radical left-wing parties (and socialist movements more broadly) tend to be characterized by a bipartite structure.…”

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“…The underlying "affective turn" (Clough and Halley, 2007, see also Marcus, 2002;Knudsen and Stage, 2015), however, has only been limitedly explored by researchers studying the populist radical right, especially when it comes to the political supply side. As Betz and Oswald (2022), p. 136 recently put it: "What we are still largely missing are discourseoriented studies that explore how right-wing populist parties concretely appeal to emotions, what tropes and rhetorical devices they use to evoke and elicit an affective response among their target audience. "…”

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The politics of resentment: what is it and how is it mobilized by populist radical right-wing parties in different contexts?

Damhuis,

Rashkova

2024

Front. Polit. Sci.

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The role of emotions in politics is drawing increasing scholarly attention. Yet, despite this heightened interest, the ways in which politicians concretely appeal to emotions of their target audience are still blurry. Let aside how they do so in different contexts. This article focuses on an affect that is frequently mentioned as the key driver explaining the electoral appeal of populist radical right-wing parties (PRRPs): resentment. In that respect, several authors have used the term “the politics of resentment,” even though the exact definition of resentment often remains unclear. In this article, we theorize what resentment precisely is and how it is used politically, and hypothesize how it is mobilized in different ways by PRR parties in different contexts. Empirically, then, we employ content analysis to study a corpus of party documents of PRRPs in three West and two East European countries from 2004 onwards and identify three types of resentment mobilized by the radical right: (1) redistributive resentment; (2) recognitory resentment; and (3) retributive resentment. Despite being expressed in a more heterogeneous way than we theoretically expected, these forms of resentment share important commonalities that, we argue, can help to better understand the electoral appeal of radical right-wing parties.

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The politics of resentment: what is it and how is it mobilized by populist radical right-wing parties in different contexts?

Damhuis,

Rashkova

2024

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“…Even more important is the overtly emotional character of their appeals. As Betz and Oswald (2022: 117) observe, “What sets radical right-wing populist parties apart is their deliberate citation of a panoply of emotions such as anxiety, anger, and nostalgia” (see also Demertzis 2006; Pappas 2019; Salmela and von Scheve 2017). Most radical right parties also speak to the concerns about out-groups exhibited by people who feel they have been treated unfairly via overt expressions of hostility to immigrants (Ivarsflaten 2008; Spruyt et al, 2016).…”

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Fairness and Support for Populist Parties

Kim,

Hall

2023

Comparative Political Studies

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On the premise that issues of fairness are important to voting behavior but often unrecognized, we explore how feelings of unfairness increase support for populist parties. We distinguish personal unfairness, the view that one’s own economic situation is unfair, from social unfairness, the view that the economic situation of others in society is unfair. Based on findings in psychology, we argue that uncertainties associated with the transition to a globalized knowledge economy heighten people’s feelings of personal unfairness and find empirical support for that contention. We develop arguments about why feelings of personal unfairness should increase support for the populist right and feelings about social unfairness should increase support for the populist left and find empirical support for them. Our results contribute to explanations for why people vote for the populist right rather than the left and underline the roles that uncertainty and issues of fairness play in electoral politics.

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“…The strength and pride of the Polish national community are primarily depicted with reference to the enemies portrayed as threatening the country. In this respect, current political elites employ historical narratives of independence and sovereignty that are closely associated with an emotionally charged plea for loyalty to the country (see: Betz and Oswald 2022). Nationalist sentiments are mobilized as an integral part of this friend-foe dichotomy.…”

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Competing Historical Narratives: Memory Politics, Identity, and Democracy in Germany and Poland

Schmidtke

2023

Social Sciences

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This article considers the growing rift between Western and Eastern Europe regarding the commemoration of Europe’s recent past and related historical narratives of nationhood that shape contemporary political preferences. More specifically, it investigates the connections between collective memory, national identities, and democratic cultures as they manifest themselves in Germany and Poland. With the help of an interpretative analysis focused on the discourse of political elites in both countries, the article identifies competing ways of interpreting 20th-century history and providing it with meaning for contemporary audiences. The national case studies of Germany and Poland present a contrasting logic in this respect: the promise of freedom and democracy in Poland is primarily narrated as the liberation from foreign rule and the desire for national independence. This narration is significantly built around a notion of popular sovereignty in which dissenting views of the heroic national past tend to be discredited and largely banned from public debate. In contrast, in Germany, the memory of fascism and the Holocaust has established a stronger rights-based approach to democracy in the liberal tradition and an openness to contesting historical narratives in the public domain.

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Emotional Mobilization: The Affective Underpinnings of Right-Wing Populist Party Support

Cited by 9 publications

References 94 publications

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Competing Historical Narratives: Memory Politics, Identity, and Democracy in Germany and Poland

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