Populist radical right parties and discursive opportunities during Covid-19. Blame attribution in times of crisis.

IF 0.7 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Zeitschrift fur Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-11-21 DOI:10.1007/s12286-022-00540-w

Jakob Schwörer, Belén Fernández-García

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Abstract

This study examines how populist radical right parties (PRRP) adapt to the discursive opportunities delivered by the Covid-19 pandemic. Conducting manual content analyses of discourses on Twitter in six Western European countries between February and October 2020 we show that PRRP frame the pandemic as a domestic political crisis attacking primarily national political elites. While PRRP occasionally link their initial support for measures against the pandemic to blame attribution towards immigrants accusing them of spreading the virus, nativist messages almost disappear when PRRP became less supportive of restrictions. Instead, in countries less affected by the pandemic (Austria, Germany) as well as in Spain, PRRP compensate the lack of nativist messages by using anti-elitist demonizing discourses against the national government accusing it of abolishing democracy and undermining freedom. The study shows how PRRP electorally "survive" periods with scarce nativist discursive opportunities by emphasizing on anti-elitist discourses.

Supplementary information: The online version of this article (10.1007/s12286-022-00540-w) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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民粹主义极右翼政党和新冠疫情期间的言论机会。危机时期的责任归因

本研究探讨了民粹主义极右翼政党（PRRP）如何适应新冠肺炎大流行带来的话语机会。通过对2020年2月至10月期间六个西欧国家推特上的话语进行手工内容分析，我们发现PRRP将疫情描述为主要攻击国家政治精英的国内政治危机。虽然PRRP偶尔会将他们最初支持应对大流行的措施与指责他们传播病毒的移民联系起来，但当PRRP不再支持限制措施时，本土主义信息几乎消失了。相反，在受疫情影响较小的国家（奥地利、德国）和西班牙，PRRP利用反精英的妖魔化言论来反对国家政府，指责其废除民主和破坏自由，以此弥补本土主义信息的缺失。该研究表明，PRRP如何通过强调反精英话语，在缺乏本土主义话语机会的时期在选举中“生存”下来。补充信息：本文的在线版本（10.1007/s12286-022-00540-w）包含补充信息，请授权用户使用。

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