CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Ozorai, Fanni |
|---|---|
| Title | Can Theories Of Mainstreaming Travel From West To East? A Comparative Study Of The French National Front And Jobbik Movement For A Better Hungary |
| Summary | Radical right populist parties have reached unprecedented electoral success in recent years and given their consolidated position in the party systems they are here to stay. My MA will compare the Hungarian Jobbik party’s moderation to the ideal-type of populist radical right, the French Front National (FN) to provide evidence for and reveal the true nature of the mainstreaming. Despite the differences between their historical legacies and structural context, the two parties seem to converge on the outcome dimension: they influence their environment in a functionally equivalent way. I will argue that contagion theory’s concepts can travel the Eastern-European radical right-wing, providing evidence that it’s not a condition-specific trend but a more general phenomenon. I aim to reveal the conditions under which mainstream parties and government policies are likely to shift to the right or adopt populist tendencies Existing literature on party effects and contagion is primarily Western-Europe-based. Although it’s almost a cliché, that since 2010 the governing party practically implements Jobbik’s program, there is very few academic works that supports whether Jobbik is in fact ‘copying’ FN deliberately or its change is a consequence of unique structural differences. I will use qualitative text analysis and discourse analysis to analyze politicians’ discourse, that allows me not only to code legislative texts (a single linguistic instance) but the broader social practice these exist in. Then, I compare the findings of the paired analysis. |
| Supervisor | Bogaards, Matthijs |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/ozorai_fanni.pdf |
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