Browsing by Subject "Radical right"

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    How polarization, populist attitudes, and cultural backlash affect citizens' support for democracy: evidence from Spain
    (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2025-02-04) Palacios Brihuega, Irene; Garrido, Antonio (Garrido Rubia); Martínez, Antonia (Martínez Rodríguez); Ciencia Política, Antropología Social y Hacienda Pública; Facultades de la UMU::Facultad de Derecho
    In recent years, substantial scholarly attention has been devoted to understanding the consequences of three increasing phenomena on democratic legitimacy: populism, polarization, and cultural backlash. While the literature has widely acknowledged the common roots of the three phenomena and the way they mutually influence each other, little is known about their empirical relationship at the attitudinal level. Using data from Spain, this article examines whether and how affective polarization, populist attitudes, and cultural backlash values are connected to citizens’ attitudes, and the extent to which they affect support for democracy as the best form of government. The results indicate that holding consistently populist views, conservative cultural values, and being affectively polarized is particularly harmful for democracy when this attitudinal pattern is maintained by younger individuals. We discuss the implications that socialization in democratic environments marked by frequent populist rhetoric and rising polarization might have on younger generations’ democratic commitment. -----------
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    La inmigración como eje de polarización en la estrategia política de la derecha radical en España
    (Prisma Social Ediciones, 2025-12-28) García Escribano, Juan José; Bakdid-Albane, Kaoutar; Del Baño Ortiz, Antonio; Sociología; Facultad de Trabajo Social
    In a European ecosystem in which radical right-wing parties are making significant rise, the birth and consolidation of Vox allows us to see how immigration is presented, also in Spain, as a cultural, economic, and security threat. This scenario has made it possible to address the general objective of the research: the analysis of immigration as the main foundation of the Spanish radical right in its discursive strategy of polarization. The research is based on a qualitative approach analyzing the speeches of Vox's main spokespersons in the Congress during the 13th, 14th, and 15th legislative periods (until May 2025). Through thematic coding and interpretive analysis techniques, and based on the predominant argumentative frameworks, the speeches produced in 18 plenary sessions, which are representative of Vox's parliamentary positions, have been selected and analyzed. The results obtained demonstrate the intention to construct a national "we" versus a "them" associated with the figure of the immigrant and concepts such as insecurity, invasion, or loss of identity. The main conclusion reached is that the discourse on immigration not only articulates a narrative of exclusion but also operates in a populist and authoritarian manner as a tool for political polarization and ideological reaffirmation of national identity.
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    El retorno de lo reprimido: el dispositivo “civilizacional” de VOX.
    (Instituto de Lingüística Materialista, 2023) Aranda Bustamante, Gilberto Cristian
    Este trabajo pretende explorar la configuración del discurso voxista en torno a cierta continuidad de un legado imperial y de una lucha milenaria contra enemigos que han “invadido” la península. La idea de una España homogénea que no cambia ni en su composición cultural, la recepción de valores, y que no es determinada por instituciones exteriores recibe un fuerte impulso desde la concepción de una Iberosfera civilizacional. La narrativa de choque de civilizaciones y recuperación de la soberanía estatal cedida a las instituciones europeas es refrendada por un dispositivo que facilitaría el mito palingenésico de “Hacer grande a España otra vez”
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    La teoría política de la Derecha Radical
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2023) Antón-Mellón, Joan; Seijo Boado, Ismael
    El presente artículo tiene como objetivo explicitar la teoría política de la derecha radical contemporánea. Para ello, se estudiarán sus ideas-fuerza y cómo han sido teóricamente conceptualizada por sus referentes culturales. En primer lugar, se sitúa a la derecha radical dentro del marco de la ultraderecha, entendiendo sus diferencias con la extrema derecha y mostrando su heterogeneidad interna. Después, se atienden a los referentes culturales que han configurado la teoría política de la derecha radical, concretamente a cuatro corrientes: la Nueva Derecha Europea (ND) de Benoist y Faye (como principal matriz ideológica de la derecha radical), el neotradicionalismo de Evola y Dugin, la alt-right de Bannon y el conservadurismo radicalizado de Scruton y Olavo de Carvalho. Finalmente, se describe la teoría política de la derecha radical marcada por un diagnóstico decadentista de la sociedad, unos objetivos etnonacionalistas y unos medios metapolíticos y reformistas.