Right up their street? News media framing of the protest activities of far-right movement parties
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9537597 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fred Paxton (0000-0001-5635-8448, University of Parma, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-97 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Politica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-6810 • E-ISSN: 1741-1416 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/s41269-024-00334-w |
| OpenAlex | W4394843349 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 50 |
Far-right parties have increasingly emphasised their movement-like characteristics as a novel mobilisation strategy. Existing studies of these so-called ‘far-right movement parties’ have concentrated on their internal organisation and communications to understand how they mediate between a movement and party identity through their own actions. Yet research is lacking on how this identity is constructed and presented by the news media: a crucial interface between institutional politics and public opinion. This paper pursues this enquiry with a comparative analysis of the newspaper coverage of two prominent cases—the German AfD and UKIP—and asks how coverage of their increasing involvement in protests has varied cross-nationally and evolved over time. The analysis reveals the relative salience of the protest activities of the far-right, along with the associated social movement actors, issues and frames used in the reporting. It shows that far-right party protest receives a low level of attention and tends to be accompanied by delegitimising framing, particularly when associated (extremist) movements are also present. In both cases analysed, a critical juncture generated increasing attention to far-right party protest, but also more delegitimising frames. The study provides new insights into the structures and processes which influence how the media has responded to the new far-right ‘movement party’ form in Europe, with implications for our understanding of contemporary far-right mobilisation strategies
Far right · Framing (construction · Media studies · Newspaper · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Salience (neuroscience · Social movement · Sociology · German legal, social, and political studies · History · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |