Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe

316 Pages·2019·4.82 MB·English

by  Lenka Bustikova

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Extreme Reactions
FocusingontherisingsupportforthepopulistrightinEasternEurope,this
book examines how anger and resentment toward minorities is being
utilized in politics. Bustikova details the process by which the acquisition
of political power and demand for rights by ascendant minority groups
precipitates a backlash of mobilization from the radical right. However,
this book also argues that prejudice against minorities is not a sentiment
exclusive to right-wing voters and is not the root cause of increasing
support for the radical right. Rather, this study reveals, variation in how
minorities are accommodated by the government explains the electoral
successes and failures of radical right parties. By examining their capital-
ization on these feelings of discontent toward politically assertive minor-
ities and with the governmental policies that yield to their demands,
Bustikova exposes volatile, Zeitgeist-dependent conditions under which
once fringe right-wing parties have risen to prominent but precarious
positionsofpower.
Lenka Bustikova is Associate Professor of Political Science at Arizona
State University. She serves as an editor of East European Politics. She
received the 2015 Best Article Prize, awarded by the American Political
Science Association’s European Politics and Society Section, and the
2017BestPaperPrize,awardedbytheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssoci-
ation’sComparativeDemocratizationSection.

Extreme Reactions
Radical Right Mobilization in
Eastern Europe
lenka bustikova
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Contents
List of Figures page ix
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 TheArgument 5
1.2 DemocratizationandRadicalRightMobilization 8
1.3 OutlineoftheBook 14
2 ATheory of Radical Right Mobilization 18
2.1 RivalExplanations 22
2.1.1 IdentityandEconomy 25
2.1.2 MainstreamParties 33
2.2 SovereigntyoftheDominantGroup 35
2.2.1 TreacherousMainstreamParties 37
2.2.2 GroupHierarchyandDemotedGroups 43
2.3 MinorityAccommodationandStatusQuoShifts 45
2.4 GroupsandStatusThreats 53
2.5 Summary 67
3 RadicalRightPartiesin Cross-National Perspective 68
3.1 DefiningRadicalRightParties 71
3.2 ObservableImplicationsoftheTheory 83
3.3 DataDescriptionandEstimationStrategy 84
3.4 TheStatisticalModel 86
3.5 DiscussionofEmpiricalResults 88
3.6 Conclusion 107
4 Mobilizationagainst Hungarians in Slovakia 109
4.1 Hypotheses 111
4.2 AccommodationoftheHungarianMinority 113
4.3 EmpiricalAnalysisandData 119
4.3.1 PolicyHostility 121
4.3.2 GroupHostility 128
4.3.3 EconomicandSovereigntyThreats 130
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4.4 RadicalRightVotersinSlovakia 143
4.5 IdentityPrimingExperiment 148
4.6 NewIssues 153
4.7 Conclusion 157
5 Mobilization againstRussians in Ukraine 159
5.1 AccommodationoftheRussianMinority 162
5.2 EmpiricalAnalysis 175
5.2.1 DataDescription 177
5.2.2 PolicyHostility 182
5.2.3 GroupHostility 185
5.2.4 EconomicThreats 195
5.3 RadicalRightVotersinUkraine 197
5.4 Conclusion 209
6 Conclusion 211
Appendix 222
Bibliography 255
Index 293