Making and Unmaking the Populist Radical Right: Networks, Narratives & Voters

Abstract

How is support for the populist radical right built - and can it be taken apart? Much scholarship treats the populist radical right (PRR) as a force to be explained or, increasingly, resisted; rather less attention is paid to the work of construction itself: the actors, alliances, and narratives through which the PRR assembles its appeal, and the question of what, if anything, can loosen that appeal once made. This panel brings together four papers that take up construction and contestation side by side. Three examine how the PRR builds its appeal- through transnational networks and the brokers who sustain them, through an ideology that is at once nationalist and transnationalist, and through the language of local place and who it casts as the 'real people'. The fourth turns to contestation, testing whether AI conversations tailored to voters' own moral values can soften support for Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Bringing these questions into the same room is the point of this panel: the construction of PRR support and the prospect of undoing it are rarely examined together, and this panel asks what comes into view when they are.

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The transnational populist radical right ecosystem	View Paper Details
Globalising to Own the Globalists: How the Populist Radical Right Combines Nationalism and Transnationalism	View Paper Details
Territorialising ‘the People’: Localism, Populism, and the Spatial Politics of Authority	View Paper Details
The Right Argument for the Populist Radical Right Voter? Moral Alignment, AI, and Radical-Right Support in Australia	View Paper Details