The Covid-19 Pandemic: Changes in Populist Radical Right Discourse?

Abstract

In the last year, the Covid-19 pandemic has overshadowed other political issues in European politics. The high salience of the topic forces populist radical right parties and movement organizations to take a stance. The papers in this panel focus on changes of far-right discourse, providing fresh insights in how they strategically adopt to the new circumstances and to what extent they link their pandemic-related rhetoric to their ideological core features. In doing so, the papers contribute with novel perspectives on far-right politics during the global pandemic.

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Against immigration, in favour of democracy: the role of immigration in the Italian populist radical right’s discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic	View Paper Details
‘Desperate times call for desperate measures’: Emergency politics and far right legitimation	View Paper Details
Blame attribution of the populist radical right in times of Covid-19. A comparison of populist radical right parties’ discourses in six Western European countries.	View Paper Details
French Populist Parties with and against COVID. Opportunities and Strategies in Times of Crisis.	View Paper Details
Hate Speeches and the Radical Right in times of Pandemic: The Italian and English cases	View Paper Details