{"title":"So close, yet so far","authors":"Florence Haegel, N. Mayer","doi":"10.4324/9781315144993-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144993-11","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the study of the political, economic and cultural attitudes of the sympathizers and voters of the French Front National on the far right and its centre right counterpart Les Republicains, this chapter argues that there are ideological proximities between the two parties, but no ‘convergence’. If the co-optation line followed by Nicolas Sarkozy since 2007 echoes with the ‘de-demonization’ attempts of Marine Le Pen since 2011, if the two parties have drawn closer on issues like immigration and law and order, they stand increasingly apart on economic and European issues and deeply divided about the strategy to adopt towards each other.","PeriodicalId":414117,"journal":{"name":"Trumping the Mainstream","volume":"428 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114952528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paving the way for Trump","authors":"K. Haltinner","doi":"10.4324/9781315144993-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144993-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414117,"journal":{"name":"Trumping the Mainstream","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122841718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Ni droite, Ni gauche, Français!”","authors":"Marta Lorimer","doi":"10.4324/9781315144993-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144993-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414117,"journal":{"name":"Trumping the Mainstream","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124069730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The weight of negativity","authors":"S. Harrison","doi":"10.4324/9781315144993-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144993-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414117,"journal":{"name":"Trumping the Mainstream","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126144766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From soft to hard Brexit","authors":"Agnès Alexandre‐Collier","doi":"10.4324/9781315144993-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144993-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414117,"journal":{"name":"Trumping the Mainstream","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127904133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"There’s something about Marine","authors":"L. Herman, J. Muldoon","doi":"10.4324/9781315144993-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144993-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414117,"journal":{"name":"Trumping the Mainstream","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117011635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Populist radical right mainstreaming and challenges to democracy in an enlarged Europe","authors":"Bartek Pytlas","doi":"10.4324/9781315144993-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144993-8","url":null,"abstract":"Populist radical right (PRR) politics became increasingly established in the political mainstream and continues to challenge the values and legitimacy of liberal democracy. In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), especially the cases of Hungary and Poland showcase the palpable consequences of these developments. Yet, as several scholars note, democratic erosion in these two countries took place despite their performance as role models of democratic consolidation. Concurrently, consolidated democracies in Western Europe are by no means immune to the rising mainstream legitimacy of PRR politics. Thus, despite the varying intensity of these phenomena across Europe, observing how PRR politics is being normalised within the mainstream of CEE democracies can provide important lessons that increasingly go beyond the contextual specificities of this region. \u0000Extant research has put increased attention on the impact of populism and nativism on liberal democracy. Yet, there is still need to explore how political entrepreneurs use these narratives in the political process to establish and most especially uphold mainstream legitimacy of illiberal politics and policies. By observing the phenomenon of PRR mainstreaming and the related challenges to liberal democracy in CEE from an actor-centred perspective, this paper thus aims to contribute to complementing the conceptual understanding of these mechanisms and processes. The study shows that while PRR parties continue to pose a major challenge to liberal democracy, political agency of established parties at the same time plays a pivotal role in the reciprocal spiral of legitimation of PRR politics – including the illiberal framing of democracy used to transport its nativist core ideology. The ability of PRR narratives to gain broader mainstream legitimacy thus results not only from mainstreaming strategies by PRR parties, but is also galvanized through the mainstreaming of PRR politics by established parties. Concurrently, where established parties adopted the overarching ultranationalist as well as anti-establishment PRR frame, they fostered its normalisation as an illiberal counter-narrative of both mainstream values and the democratic ideal. Once in absolute power, they ultimately deployed it to legitimize democratic deconsolidation in the name of “democracy” itself.","PeriodicalId":414117,"journal":{"name":"Trumping the Mainstream","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126354099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Populisms in Europe","authors":"Z. Enyedi, Martin Mölder","doi":"10.4324/9781315144993-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144993-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414117,"journal":{"name":"Trumping the Mainstream","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122137935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Left, right, but no in-between","authors":"C. Parker, S. Mayer, Nicole Buckley","doi":"10.4324/9781315144993-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144993-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414117,"journal":{"name":"Trumping the Mainstream","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117352097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Populist nationalism and ontological security","authors":"Joseph Lacey","doi":"10.4324/9781315144993-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144993-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414117,"journal":{"name":"Trumping the Mainstream","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128710607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}