Violence, Self-Worth, Solidarity and Stigma: How a Dissident, Far-Right Group Solves the Collective Action Problem

Meadowcroft, John; Morrow, Elizabeth A.

doi:10.1177/0032321716651654

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“…We argue that the EDL's promotion of women, LGBT people, Sikhs and Jews is the result of the strategic considerations of selective tolerance. Meadowcroft and Morrow (2017) have observed that EDL participation is a stigmatised activity with much of the encountered stigma being derived from the public perception that the group is racist. In a bid to challenge this perception, many EDL members were at pains to portray themselves as anti-racist and tolerant of minority groups.…”

Section: The United Kingdom and Selective Tolerancementioning

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Selective tolerance and the radical right

Jennings

Ralph-Morrow

2020

Rationality and Society

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In recent decades, there has been increased tolerance within many countries towards a range of previous out-groups. This has been displayed most dramatically in the growing acceptance of the LGBT community. Some radical right organisations are also expressing tolerance towards the very same out-groups which they once reviled. We postulate that the radical right strategically uses tolerance to increase its own support and to impose costs on another out-group – Muslims – who are judged to be hostile to the tolerated groups. We provide a theoretical analysis and contrasting case studies that help explain the conditions under which radical right organisations will, or will not, display tolerance towards out-groups.

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Section: The United Kingdom and Selective Tolerancementioning

confidence: 99%

Selective tolerance and the radical right

Jennings

Ralph-Morrow

2020

Rationality and Society

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“…Although it claims to want to utilise the courts and legislature to protect human rights, democracy and the traditions of England, the EDL favours direct action in the form of confrontational demonstrations. Our own and other studies have found EDL members to be predominantly White, male and working-class -like other far-right parties and organisations (Bartlett and Littler, 2011;Busher, 2016;Kassimeris and Jackson, 2015;Meadowcroft and Morrow, 2017;Pilkington, 2016;Treadwell and Garland, 2011).…”

Section: The Edl: Rise and Fallmentioning

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The Rise and Fall of the English Defence League: Self-Governance, Marginal Members and the Far Right

Morrow¹,

Meadowcroft

2018

Political Studies

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What determines the success or failure of far-right organisations? This article uses new qualitative data to explain the sudden rise and subsequent decline of the English Defence League, an anti-Islamic, street protest organisation established in the UK in 2009. We explain the rise and fall of the English Defence League through the lens of the theory of collective action to show that the English Defence League initially motivated activism by supplying selective incentives that were enhanced by the participation of others. The pursuit of ‘participatory crowding’ led to indiscriminate recruitment into the organisation that enabled numbers to expand into the thousands, but ultimately caused the English Defence League’s downfall because it resulted in the presence of large numbers of ‘marginal members’ with low levels of commitment whose subsequent exit was decisively destructive. Self-governance mechanisms to ensure greater loyalty from members could have prevented the English Defence League’s decline but would also have limited its initial success.

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“…Peterson ; Pirro and Castelli Gattinara ), others have reconciled the study of movements and parties through the analysis of extra‐parliamentary actors and grassroots activism (e.g. Albanese et al ; Busher ; Caiani et al ; Meadowcroft and Morrow ; Molnár ; Pirro and Róna ). Others have taken yet another route by adopting heuristic devices elaborated within social movement theory – e.g.…”

Section: The Far‐right As Collective Actormentioning

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Ballots and barricades enhanced: far‐right ‘movement parties’ and movement‐electoral interactions

Pirro

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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Far‐right organisations offer an ideal common ground to bridge the scholarships on social movements and party politics. Indeed, they can be often interpreted as ‘movement parties’, i.e. hybrid collective actors spurring from the protest arena and translating social movement practices in the arena of party competition. This contribution enhances our understanding of the contemporary far right by focusing on the neglected links between movements and elections within the broader context of contention. The article assesses and refines propositions about such interactions through the adoption of a specific framework, ultimately showing that the Hungarian Jobbik consistently subscribed to the linkage mechanisms discussed.

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Violence, Self-Worth, Solidarity and Stigma: How a Dissident, Far-Right Group Solves the Collective Action Problem

Cited by 27 publications

References 33 publications

Selective tolerance and the radical right

Selective tolerance and the radical right

The Rise and Fall of the English Defence League: Self-Governance, Marginal Members and the Far Right

Ballots and barricades enhanced: far‐right ‘movement parties’ and movement‐electoral interactions

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