The Populist Radical Right and the Media in the Benelux
Friend or Foe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12977341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Léonie De Jonge (0000-0003-0409-5660, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189-209 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Press/Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-1612 • E-ISSN: 1040-1620 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1940161218821098 |
| OpenAlex | W4247280154 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 59 |
| References cited | 28 |
Although most scholars acknowledge that the media play an instrumental role in furthering or limiting the spread of populism, the exact nature of the relationship between right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) and the media remains poorly understood. This article analyzes the various ways in which the media choose to deal with RWPPs in the Benelux region (i.e., Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg). Using evidence from interviews with media practitioners ( n = 46), the findings suggest that in the absence of a credible right-wing populist challenger, media practitioners in Luxembourg and Wallonia adhere to strict demarcation, whereas the Dutch and Flemish media have become gradually more accommodative to RWPPs. This study makes two contributions to the field. First, it systematically theorizes the different ways in which the media can approach the populist radical right. Second, it provides illustrative, comparative evidence about the rationale for why some media provide space for RWPPs while others deny it, thereby illuminating the under-researched topic of societal responses to the populist radical right
Field (mathematics · Flemish · Limiting · Media coverage · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Populism · Radical right · Right wing · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Engineering · German legal, social, and political studies · History · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Cross-bordering journalism
Watchdogging Populism
Covering Conspiracy
Tailgater, mouthpiece, or magnifying glass? Italian political journalism in the face of populist radical right news politicization
Reporting the unsayable
Medijski populizem in afektivno novinarstvo
Amplified News Framing of Social Disturbance and Its Impact on Authoritarian Attitudes
Far right alternative news media as ‘indignation mobilization mechanisms’
Mayors as gatekeepers? Local responses to the Alternative for Germany
Journalistic Roles in Light of Populism
“Tough on immigration”
Researching and Understanding Far-Right Politics in Times of Mainstreaming
They shall not pass? The role of supply-side factors in the electoral breakthrough of VOX and Chega
Populist communication and media environments
The Construction of a Hybrid Media Storm
Negotiating the boundaries of the politically sayable
Na linha de fogo
Humor, Ridicule, and the Far Right
The Power of Populist Discourses
Representing the radical right of the Grande Nation in the Grand Duchy
Prosecuted, yet popular? Hate speech prosecution of anti-immigration politicians in the news and electoral support
Journalists’ Roles and the Ultra-Right
Journalists’ Apprehension of Being Politically Correct
No room for hate in our country’
The Logic of Connective Faction
The normalization of the populist radical right in news interviews
Beyond Anti-Media Populism
The normalisation of the far right in the Dutch media in the run-up to the 2021 general elections
The normalization of far-right populism and nativist authoritarianism
Far-right agenda setting
Governing Emotions
How the media cordon sanitaire crumbles
Media anti-populism and political parallelism in Latin America
Twitter as a right-wing populist’s playground
The Vlaams Belang
The platforming is the point
How Right-Wing Populists Instrumentalize News Media
Preference versus salience
Satisfied unlike me? How the perceived difference with close network contacts prevents radical and protest voting
The role of paid, earned and owned media in political communication
Is populism really represented as a threat? An analysis of media discourse on populism in Belgium, France and Spain
Varieties of Populist Parties and Party Systems in Europe
Mainstreaming the populist radical right? Online news exposure and voting behavior in the 2019 European Parliament election
Far‐right protest mobilisation in Europe
When the Far Right Makes the News
Fake It ‘Til You Make It
Post-‘Post-Fascism’ and Far Right Mainstreaming in Italy
Discourse Networks of the Far Right
The Contemporary Far Right fromContrato Control
Political communication on Facebook
The Curious Case of Belgium
Back to the Future? The Electoral Breakthrough of Far-Right Parties
How Do Mainstream Parties ‘Become’ Mainstream, and Pariah Parties ‘Become’ Pariahs? Conceptualizing the Processes of Mainstreaming and Pariahing in the Labelling of Political Parties
How Do Mainstream Parties Justify Their (Un)willingness to Rule with Populist Parties? Evidence from Twitter Data
Cleavage theory meets Bourdieu
It depends on personal networks
Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views
Radical right populism and the media
Repertoires of Comparison
Parties and party systems
The Politics of Belgium
Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe
Populist Parties in Europe
Comparing Media Systems
Populism and the Media
The Media and the Far Right in Western Europe
Controlling the Electoral Marketplace
The Comparative Method
Inside the Radical Right
The evolution of a media image
Explaining the strange decline of the populist radical right Vlaams Belang in Belgium
Exclusionary vs. Inclusionary Populism
Effects of Election News Coverage
Europhile Media and Eurosceptic Voting
The radical right in public office
Strategies of mainstream parties towards their right-wing populist challengers
Pariahs in their midst
The Populist Challenge
The rise of right‐wing populist Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands
Social Democratic parties as buffers against the extreme right
Populism
The Populist Radical Right
Explaining the rise of anti-immigrant parties
| Unique citing works | 59 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 59 |