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The Micro-Politics of Right-wing Populism

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Published
Publication date30/09/2020
Host publicationPopulism and the Crisis of Democracy: Volume 2: Politics, Social Movements and Extremism
EditorsJurgen Mackert
PublisherRoutledge
Pages10-28
Number of pages19
Volume2
ISBN (electronic)9781315108063
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

In this chapter, I explore the ‘micro-politics’ of right-wing populism. I discuss adequate qualitative and quantitative methodologies to analyse the exclusionary rhetoric of such parties and focus on the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the presidential election campaign in Austria (2016). To explain why such parties and their programmes are successful, we need a careful context-dependent, multi-methodical, multi-modal and critical interdisciplinary analysis of the ‘micro-politics’ of the Far Right; that is how they actually produce and reproduce their ideologies and exclusionary politics in everyday politics, in the media, in campaigning, in posters, slogans and speeches, travelling from backstage to frontstage, thus normalising extreme right agenda and policies.