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The Populist Radical Right and the Pandemic

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ID6266567
AuthorsCristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (0000-0002-5453-3318, Diego Portales University), Paul Taggart (0000-0002-1535-3015, University of Sussex, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume59
Issue4
Pages977-997
Publication date2024-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGovernment and Opposition (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/gov.2022.46
OpenAlexW4309339021
LanguageEN
Citations received38
References cited30

COVID-19 shocked the world and provided a particular challenge for populist radical right (PRR) forces. We lay out three research questions that this special issue addresses through case studies of the PRR in government in Brazil, Hungary, Turkey and the US and in opposition in France, Italy, Germany and Spain: (1) How have PRR actors responded to the pandemic? (2) How have PRR actors framed the politics of the pandemic? and (3) What have been the effects of the pandemic on the popularity of the PRR? We explain the case selection of this special issue and summarize the main findings of the eight case studies, which show that the pandemic did not severely damage the PRR and that they had very different responses to the challenge. This reinforces the idea that the PRR is not ephemeral but is rather the by-product of structural transformations of contemporary societies and is here for the foreseeable future

Biology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Ephemeral key · Government (linguistics · Opposition (politics · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Sociology · Law · Medicine · Philosophy

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Unique citing works38
Citations per year9,5
Citation span2022 - 2026 (5)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 38

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