Populist Radical Right Party Organization: Views from Within

Abstract

While the demand-side of populist radical right (PRR) party persistence and success has been extensively explored, the supply-side as concerns the internal organizations of these parties remains relatively overlooked. In particular, beyond studies based on official party documentation and externally visible features, we know little about who their grassroots members are, what membership entails, and how their organizations are evolving. Moreover, there is a scarcity of research which investigates party organizations from an internalist perspective, whether through interviews, surveys, or other methods. This panel presents four papers, all based on extensive fieldwork, that seek to help us understand the organizational trajectories of contemporary PRR parties across Europe, from how their youth wings are developing, to their increasing international contacts, to how the stigmatization of such parties affects the participation of grassroots members.

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Less active, less ambitious: Stigmatisation and participation in populist radical right parties	View Paper Details
“Young Alternative” and its Difficult Relationship with the “Alternative for Germany”	View Paper Details
Young nationalists and internationalists: Explaining populist radical right youth wing cooperation	View Paper Details
The Party leaders of tomorrow? An explorative analysis of the leadership of European PRR youth wings	View Paper Details