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Right-wing populism, also called national populism and right-wing nationalism, is a political ideology that combines right-wing politics with populist rhetoric and themes. Its rhetoric employs anti- elitist sentiments, opposition to the Establishment , and speaking to or for the " common people ".
Thus, populists can be found at different locations along the left–right political spectrum, and there exist both left-wing populism and right-wing populism. [6] Other scholars of the social sciences have defined the term populism differently.
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May 27, 2022 · The comparative angle allows us to study cross-country variation in authenticity performances of populist incumbents on the right of the political spectrum. Drawing on recent scholarship on populism and political authenticity, we explore how these leaders communicate authentically about international politics.
Jul 14, 2017 · Minkenberg (2017: 124) considers them ‘right-wing populist with programmatic elements of radical right’, since they remain ideologically more diverse than the PRR family. Nevertheless, these two parties feature prominently in debates about liberal democracy being undermined by right-wing populism.
- Constitutional Barriers to Legislative Change Incentivize Extra-Legal Measures
- Everyday Vigilantism Provides Local Templates For National Causes
- State Complicity Provides Impunity For Vigilantism
When pluralist constitutions make it difficult for right-wing populists to curtail minority rights through top-down legislative change, vigilantism emerges as an appealing out-of-system strategy for undermining these rights from the bottom up. Both India and Indonesia are endowed with constitutions that reflect an inclusive conceptualization of nat...
Social legitimacy associated with quotidian forms of vigilantism allows right-wing populists to scale up local templates of violence for national goals. Everyday forms of crime-control vigilantism are common across India and Indonesia against suspected thieves, child abductors, and sorcerers. Disillusioned with inadequate provision of order by the ...
The risk of vigilante violence increases when vigilantes develop the ability to collude with state officials and shield themselves from the consequences of engaging in extra-legal violence (Jaffrey 2019). Unlike interpersonal violence, like murder, rape, or assault, vigilantism is essentially a public form of violence that is performed in front of ...
- Sana Jaffrey
- sana.jaffrey@ceip.org
- 2021
As we have explained so far (right-wing) populism in its most general sense refers to shifted values and mobilized collective actions toward the political, cultural, and economic entitlements and preferences of the populace (the so-called “the people”) against those particular social groups or communities whose identities or interests are ...
5 Chip Berlet and Matthew Nemiroff Lyons, Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, Critical Perspectives (New York: Guilford Press, 2000). 6 Federico Finchelstein, A Brief History of Fascist Lies (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020).
