When nationalism meets populism: examining right-wing populist &amp; nationalist discourses in the 2014 &amp; 2019 European parliamentary elections

Rodi, Patricia; Karavasilis, Lazaros; Puleo, Leonardo

doi:10.1080/23745118.2021.1994809

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“…Our study matches recent findings (Custodi, 2020;da Silva et al, 2022) showing that the supposed ambiguity between populism and nationalism (Brubaker, 2020) can be resolved by an approach that clearly separates the two concepts (De Cleen & Stavrakakis, 2020;Stavrakakis et al, 2017). Hence, we concur with those authors who caution that the populist label should be used sparingly and not as a defining feature for parties or politicians (Rodi et al, 2021).…”

Section: Civilisationismsupporting

confidence: 92%

Connections between populism and nationalism: Evidence from Jair Bolsonaro's speeches

Ricci

Venturelli²

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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Recent studies have warned about the close relationship between populism and nationalism. This article offers an empirical contribution to the examination of this relationship by analysing the presence of populist and nationalist elements in the official speeches of the outgoing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. We make two contributions to this expanding literature. First, we show that the supposed ambiguity between populism and nationalism can be resolved by an approach that clearly separates the two concepts. Second, we find that Bolsonaro is more populist than nationalist. His populism has elements in common with other European populist leaders (attacking political parties and the political class), but he distances himself from them by presenting authoritarian traits. Nativism is completely absent (unlike in Europe), but ‘sovereignism’ (‘us’ vs. ‘other nations or institutions’) and ‘civilisationism’ (‘us’ vs. ‘minorities’) sometimes overlap with populism. We conclude that a tension exists between populism and nationalism that can endanger the ‘good’ relationship between the populist leader and their supporters. This is something that future research on populism should consider.

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Section: Civilisationismsupporting

confidence: 92%

Connections between populism and nationalism: Evidence from Jair Bolsonaro's speeches

Ricci

Venturelli²

2023

Nations and Nationalism

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“…Its concise form prevents a full-fledged elaboration of a populist Weltanschauung; still, the nativist construction of the pure Italian people oppressed by the EU institutions and threatened by immigrant inflows articulates the populist identity of FdI (2018). This confirms those discursive interpretations of the populist radical right asserting that populism might constitute a conditional qualifier of party nationalism and nativism (Rodi, Karavasilis & Puleo 2021). Despite the fact that the borders of 'the people' are clearly subordinate to its nativist ideological traits, we argue that FdI's populism is not confined to a stylistic dimension; indeed, the juxtaposition of the virtuous people -portrayed as the only source of political legitimacy -against the delegitimised elites represents a crucial ideational feature.…”

Section: Populismsupporting

confidence: 83%

Back to the Post-Fascist Past or Landing in the Populist Radical Right? The Brothers of Italy Between Continuity and Change

Puleo¹,

Piccolino²

2022

South European Society and Politics

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Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) is the new rising star of Italian politics. Scholars and pundits briskly categorised it as a (new) populist radical right (PRR) party. Still, FdI's newness needs to be properly framed. A splinter party of the Popolo della Libertà, it claims a direct lineage with the Alleanza Nazionale -two cases not easily agglutinated into the PRR family. The article analyses the (dis)continuity associated with FdI, examining ideology, organisation, and the continuity of elites. It demonstrates that FdI's organisation and political elites largely overlap with its predecessor parties. However, FdI accomplished a major ideological rebranding, positioning itself as radically different from both the mainstream centre-right and the postfascist tradition of the Italian right.

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“…An exception to the politicization pattern is the Central and East European countries, which are considered as such due to the underdeveloped nature of their party systems, to which crises brought some structure (ibid.). Other literature also indicated that the spread of contestation of the EU across the Union (Rooduijn et al, 2014) had to do more with political tactics such as an attempt to challenge established parties (de Vries & Hobolt, 2020) or even rhetoric (Rodi et al, 2023) rather than fundamentally challenging the rationale of the European integration. Finally, the EU as a political system responded to growing contestation, and EU institutions themselves increasingly evolved into political actors (Zeitlin & Nicoli, 2020).…”

Section: Euroscepticism and Economic Cultural Political And Health Cr...mentioning

confidence: 99%

European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU

Caiani,

Carlotti,

Lovec

et al. 2024

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With an extensive fieldwork based on meso level interviews with political actors (parties and movements) and focus groups, archival material, analysis of electoral manifestoes and organizational (offline and online) documents, this timely book investigates European narratives (and Euroscepticism) from below, from the Right and the Left, in five European countries: two candidate countries for accession to the EU -North Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina-and three member states (one founding member and two that joined the Eu in the 21st century): Italy, Poland and Slovenia. Bringing social movement studies and party politics, with the novel phenomenon of 'movement-parties', and going beyond the notion Euroscepticism, it sheds light on recent developments of Eurocritical frames from below, showing different paths and trajectories of opposition toward Europe.

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When nationalism meets populism: examining right-wing populist & nationalist discourses in the 2014 & 2019 European parliamentary elections

Cited by 6 publications

References 51 publications

Connections between populism and nationalism: Evidence from Jair Bolsonaro's speeches

Connections between populism and nationalism: Evidence from Jair Bolsonaro's speeches

Back to the Post-Fascist Past or Landing in the Populist Radical Right? The Brothers of Italy Between Continuity and Change

European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU

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