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In the Name of “Endangered Nations” and “Unsovereign States”? Official Discourses of Radical Right Movement Parties and Social Movement Organizations in Poland and Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2023

Justyna Kajta Open the ORCID record for Justyna Kajta [Opens in a new window] ,
Janina Myrczik  and
Mateusz Karolak
Justyna Kajta*
Affiliation:
Institute of Social Sciences, SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland
Janina Myrczik
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Medical School Berlin, Germany
Mateusz Karolak
Affiliation:
Institute of Sociology, University of Wrocław, Poland
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Corresponding author: Justyna Kajta, email: jkajta@swps.edu.pl
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Abstract

The political landscape of the radical right has long been a major discussion point in the political and social sciences. By considering the variety of radical right organizations (movement parties and non-parliamentary organizations) and the particular national and transnational political and discursive opportunity structures, the paper aims at a comparative analysis of the main discursive frames present in political programs and manifestoes of radical right social movement organizations and movement parties in Poland (Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość and Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny) and Germany (Alternative für Deutschland and Identitäre Bewegung Deutschland). Moreover, based on approaches developed by Cas Mudde and Jens Rydgren, this article analyses how the features presumed essential to the radical right (nativism, authoritarianism and populism) are reflected and interconnected in the official discourses of the selected radical right organizations.

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radical right discoursesframesparty movementsPolandGermany

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , May 2024 , pp. 619 - 639
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