The Non-Party Sector of the Radical Right

Veugelers, John; Ménard, Gabriel

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“…Answers to these questions might not only enrich our understanding of how educational beliefs and practices form. Scholars of the far right have started calling for knowledge on 'why people join, how they are socialized into members, and how the party picks and trains its cadres' (Mudde, 2016: 13; see also Art, 2012;Miller-Idriss and Pilkington, 2017;Veugelers and Menard, 2018). Educationalists are ideally equipped to shed light on such processes.…”

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“…The second wave is represented by the German Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) and other minor parties, as well as the think tanks and societal organisations that stepped in to renew the far-right programme in the 1960s, including the leading French Groupement de Recherche et d’Études pour la Civilisation Européenne (GRECE) ( Bar-On, 2007 ; Veugelers and Menard, 2018 ). Student organisations such as the Fédération Étudiants Nationalistes (FEN) and Ordre Nouveau also offer an insight into extreme-right politics ( Bale, 2017 ).…”

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“…A second crucial variation, then, is these actors’ different organisational and strategic set up. While the literature’s focus overwhelmingly lies on far-right parties, far-right ideology can also be embodied and promoted by other forms of actors, including intellectual think tanks as well as grassroots and subcultural societal organisations ( Blee and Creasap, 2010 ; Castelli Gattinara and Pirro, 2019 ; Veugelers and Menard, 2018 ).…”

Section: Defining the Far Right: Essential Features And Internal Varimentioning

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“…The far-right political community at large has been approached from different theoretical perspectives. Some scholars treat it as a party family ( Mudde, 2000 ), others as a school of thought ( Bar-On, 2007 ), and still others as a social movement ( Castelli Gattinara and Pirro, 2019 ; Minkenberg, 2019 ; Veugelers and Menard, 2018 ). The aforementioned studies suggest that, when it comes to education, the US and UK far right might be best understood as a social movement, and thus as a form of political contestation where legislative action, grassroots mobilisation, and theoretical elaborations constitute complementary or substitutive means for promoting change.…”

Section: The Far Right and Education: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Seeds of authoritarian opposition: Far-right education politics in post-war Europe

Giudici

2020

European Educational Research Journal

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Since the 1980s, right-wing extremism, radicalism, and populism have emerged as transformative forces in European politics. This unexpected resurgence has triggered an interdisciplinary scholarly effort to refine our understanding of the far right. Educationalists, however, have largely been absent from this endeavour, leaving us unable to theorise and address the potential effects of the far right’s political and cultural growth on European education. This article aims to provide an empirically based conceptional groundwork for educational research on the far right. Drawing on archival research and content analysis of programmatic material produced by diverse and influential far-right organisations in France, (West) Germany, and Italy, I show that the post-war European far right disposes of the two essential features of a social movement: an action-oriented frame that reduces educational reforms to a common contentious theme, and a dense organisational network. The latter engages in institutional and contentious politics, as well as education. Theoretically, these findings suggest that, in the realm of education, the far right ought to be conceptualised as a social movement that seeks to influence education policy, and represents itself an educational actor. Addressing the far right’s multifaceted educational engagement thus requires a combined effort across European education research.

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Seeds of authoritarian opposition: Far-right education politics in post-war Europe

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2020

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“…In addition to the common distinctions between right-wing populism generally opposing the state and left-wing populism opposing both the state and advanced capitalism, an intermediate version focuses on the functioning of the democratic system (Kriesi, 2014, p. 362). Populism grows out of a variety of organisations and movements (Aslanidis, 2017;Ciani & Della Porta, 2017), and its ideas are diffused through several channels (Veugelers & Menard, 2017). Despite this diversity, political parties are the most central organisations of populist mobilisation.…”

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The Populist Elite Paradox: Using Elite Theory to Elucidate the Shapes and Stakes of Populist Elite Critiques

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Teigen³

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Elites and People: Challenges to Democracy

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Critiques of elites define populism, which conceives of power relations as a unified, conspiring elite exploiting the good people. Yet, populism itself is inherently elitist, calling for a strong leader to take power and channel the will of the people. Elite theory, surprisingly overlooked in scholarship on populism, can clarify this apparent paradox and elucidate the dimensions of populism and its risk of authoritarianism in new ways. In contrast to populist ideological conceptions of power relations in society, elite theory points to the possibility that several elites with diverging voices and interests exist. Furthermore, elite theorists argue that such elite pluralism is a necessary component of a well-functioning democracy. Much scholarship on populism, often aiming to understand its causes and focussing on Western Europe and North America, points to the similarities of populist movements. The focus on similarities strengthens the understanding of populism as a uniform phenomenon and populist elite critiques as homogeneous. However, broader comparative studies show that different populist movements target a range of various elite groups. Indeed, the empirical reality of populist elite critiques targeting diverse elite groups is more in line with elite theory than populist ideological

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The far right as social movement

2018

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The literature on the far right is trying to connect with social movement studies. Scholars from different social scientific backgrounds are increasingly acknowledging that extra-parliamentary grassroots activism is part of the alliance and conflict structure of nativist collective actors. The recent rise in far-right street politicsor, precisely, its re-emergence with seemingly different clothesshould encourage the study of the inter-relations between party and non-party collective actors. As a case in point, the far right not only includes political parties geared towards elections and public office but also social movements or 'networks of networks' that aim to mobilise public support, and a conglomeration of subcultural groups and groupuscules. By putting forward a three-part metric to analyse mobilisation factors at the macro, meso, and micro levels, this piece and the Special Issue it introduces bring the (inter-)relations between far-right parties, movements, and subcultures frontstage, and elaborate on nativist collective action across different arenas of contention.

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The Non-Party Sector of the Radical Right

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Seeds of authoritarian opposition: Far-right education politics in post-war Europe

Seeds of authoritarian opposition: Far-right education politics in post-war Europe

The Populist Elite Paradox: Using Elite Theory to Elucidate the Shapes and Stakes of Populist Elite Critiques

The far right as social movement

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