
How Did The Far Right Go From Illegitimate Fringe To Contender For Public Office, And Did Europe Have Anything To Do With It? This Book Argues That European Integration Functioned As An Ideological Resource For Far Right Parties Looking For Legitimation Because It Enabled Them To Refashion Their Political Message In A More Acceptable Form, While Maintaining The Allegiance Of Their Existing Supporters. Drawing On The Qualitative Analysis Of Over 400 Documents Produced By The Italian Social Movement In Italy (1978-2009) And The Rassemblement National In France (1978-2019), The Book Identifies The Core Concepts And Discourses The Parties Used To Talk About Europe, And The Legitimation Mechanisms Associated With Them. The Book's Narrative Is Developed Through The Analysis Of Four Key Concepts: The Concept Of Identity, Which Enabled The Parties To Transnationalise Their Message And Create A Positive Association Between Themselves And Europe; The Concept Of Liberty, Which Made It Possible For Them To Foster An Image Of Actors Holding Uncontroversial Positions; The Concept Of Threat, Which Helped Them Promote The Idea That 'desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures;' And The Concept Of National Interest, Which Helped Them Stress Commitment To Core Principles In Their Ideology
This book investigates how European integration served as an ideological resource for far-right parties to gain political legitimacy and mainstream acceptance. Dr. Marta Lorimer, a scholar of European politics, utilizes a comparative framework to examine how fringe political movements refashioned their rhetoric. By analyzing the discourse of the Italian Social Movement and the Rassemblement National, the author argues that these parties strategically leveraged European concepts to maintain their base while appealing to broader electorates.
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Experts identify this work as a rigorous contribution to the study of far-right political communication and European integration. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose and the systematic nature of the document analysis.
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Publication Date:
2024-01-01
Publisher:
New York : Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0191996602
ISBN-13:
9780191996603
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