Organizational Diffusion: What India Tells Us about How the Far Right Wins

IF 3.2 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI:10.1177/00323292241284114

Felix Pal

{"title":"Organizational Diffusion: What India Tells Us about How the Far Right Wins","authors":"Felix Pal","doi":"10.1177/00323292241284114","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Presenting a world-first data set of 2,831 constitutive organizations of history's largest far-right interorganizational network, this article presents a new explanation for far-right normalization: organizational diffusion. Providing, for the first time, empirical evidence of the large network characteristics of the Indian far right, this article paints a picture of what this network actually looks like, how far it has spread, and what explains its success. In doing so, this explanation unearths a far-right strategy of covert civil society expansion that has largely evaded the party-focused extant study of global far-right electoral mobilization. Identifying this strategy of organizational diffusion, this article argues that it produces three effects that produce broad, flexible, and durable mobilizations: segmented representation, reputational control, and leadership accommodation. Organizational diffusion, present in far-right mobilizations as diverse as Ma Ba Tha, Nippon Kaigi, and the Thai military, presents an important far-right mobilizing tool that exhorts scholars to refocus on covert civil society expansion as a key mechanism of far-right normalization.","PeriodicalId":47847,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Society","volume":"53 2","pages":"210-242"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00323292241284114","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Politics & Society","FirstCategoryId":"0","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00323292241284114","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Presenting a world-first data set of 2,831 constitutive organizations of history's largest far-right interorganizational network, this article presents a new explanation for far-right normalization: organizational diffusion. Providing, for the first time, empirical evidence of the large network characteristics of the Indian far right, this article paints a picture of what this network actually looks like, how far it has spread, and what explains its success. In doing so, this explanation unearths a far-right strategy of covert civil society expansion that has largely evaded the party-focused extant study of global far-right electoral mobilization. Identifying this strategy of organizational diffusion, this article argues that it produces three effects that produce broad, flexible, and durable mobilizations: segmented representation, reputational control, and leadership accommodation. Organizational diffusion, present in far-right mobilizations as diverse as Ma Ba Tha, Nippon Kaigi, and the Thai military, presents an important far-right mobilizing tool that exhorts scholars to refocus on covert civil society expansion as a key mechanism of far-right normalization.

查看原文本刊更多论文

组织扩散：印度告诉我们极右翼是如何获胜的

本文展示了历史上最大的极右翼组织间网络的2831个组成组织的世界首个数据集，提出了极右翼正常化的新解释：组织扩散。这篇文章首次提供了印度极右翼的大型网络特征的经验证据，描绘了这个网络的实际样子，它传播了多远，以及它的成功的原因。在这样做的过程中，这种解释揭示了一种极右翼的秘密公民社会扩张策略，这种策略在很大程度上回避了以政党为中心的全球极右翼选举动员的现有研究。识别这种组织扩散策略，本文认为它产生了三种产生广泛、灵活和持久动员的效果：分段代表、声誉控制和领导适应。组织扩散存在于各种极右翼动员中，如Ma Ba Tha、Nippon Kaigi和泰国军队，它是一种重要的极右翼动员工具，它促使学者重新关注作为极右翼正常化关键机制的隐蔽公民社会扩张。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Politics & Society Multiple-

CiteScore

5.00

自引率

4.20%

发文量

期刊介绍： Politics & Society is a peer-reviewed journal. All submitted papers are read by a rotating editorial board member. If a paper is deemed potentially publishable, it is sent to another board member, who, if agreeing that it is potentially publishable, sends it to a third board member. If and only if all three agree, the paper is sent to the entire editorial board for consideration at board meetings. The editorial board meets three times a year, and the board members who are present (usually between 9 and 14) make decisions through a deliberative process that also considers written reports from absent members. Unlike many journals which rely on 1–3 individual blind referee reports and a single editor with final say, the peers who decide whether to accept submitted work are thus the full editorial board of the journal, comprised of scholars from various disciplines, who discuss papers openly, with author names known, at meetings. Editors are required to disclose potential conflicts of interest when evaluating manuscripts and to recuse themselves from voting if such a potential exists.