The Netherlands: A Fleeting Extreme Right

2003 ◽  
pp. 162-172
Author(s):  
Piero Ignazi
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Extreme Right

The extreme right in the Netherlands.

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERRIT VOERMAN ◽  
PAUL LUCARDIE
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Extreme Right

Parliamentary Representation in Six European Right-Wing Sovereignist Parties: Resemblance or Innovation?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossella Borri ◽  
Luca Verzichelli
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Heterogeneous Group ◽  
Homogeneous Group ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
The People ◽  
Extreme Right Parties

Abstract The appeal to the re-appropriation of national sovereignty has recently become the unifying trait of a heterogeneous group of right-wing parties. The underlying reasoning behind this claim is that globalised elites ignore the needs of the people—defined as a restricted and ethnically homogeneous group of natives—they are supposed to represent. After defining the perimeter of this party cluster, including populist, national conservatives and extreme-right parties, this article explores the extent to which the adoption of similar political platforms might also be reflected in a convergence of parliamentary party articulations. A qualitative account of the evolution of parliamentary representation in a few right-wing parties from Italy, Hungary and the Netherlands shows that a two-way street of institutionalisation might be at play in the complex balance between uncompromising grassroots components and a more pragmatic institutional component.

scholarly journals Gender Knowledge, and Opposition to the Feminist Project: Extreme-Right Populist Parties in the Netherlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mieke Verloo
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Normative Significance ◽  
Epistemic Dimension ◽  
Gender Knowledge

This article aims to better understand current opposition to feminist politics by analyzing positions of extreme-right populist parties on gender knowledge, “explicit and implicit representations concerning the differences between the sexes and the relations between them, the origins and normative significance of these, the rationale and evidence underpinning them and their material form” (Cavaghan, 2017, p. 48). These understandings contribute to constructing a societal truth on gender and/or to setting the terms of the political debate about gender issues. This article introduces and uses the theoretical concept of episteme to highlight the systematic nature of discursive institutional settings, and the role knowledge and truth production plays in processes reproducing or countering gender inequality. The article analyzes the positions of extreme-right populist parties in the Netherlands and their discursive attacks on the feminist project in the Netherlands, in which these opponents use a redefined concept of ‘cultural Marxism’. Through this analysis, the article illustrates the theoretical argument that epistemic dynamics play a strong role in opposition to feminist politics, that the shifting epistemic framing of science is important in these oppositions and that more comprehensive attention for the epistemic dimension is needed.

De beeldspraak van Geert Wilders, een Tsunami over Nederland?

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christ’l De Landtsheer ◽  
Lieuwe Kalkhoven ◽  
Loes Broen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
The Core ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Press ◽  
Theory Section

The imagery of Geert Wilders, a Tsunami over the Netherlands? The imagery of Geert Wilders, a Tsunami over the Netherlands? This article examines the language of the Dutch politician Geert Wilders and his anti-immigrant Party for Freedom (PVV) against the yardstick of ‘extreme right’. Should we consider Wilders who is charged because of hatred against Muslims as a populist or rather an extreme-rightist? The core question of the article is addressed in a theory section on populism, right-extremism and its (metaphor) style, and an empirical section that tracks the political style and thematic choice of Wilders. The empirical case concerning language use of Geert Wilders includes a metaphor analysis using a metaphor index that is a quantitative view of the metaphorical power of a text (De Landtsheer, 2009). Also a thematic quantitative content analysis is part of the case. There were three different news formats examined: columns, opinion pieces, and the press releases of the PVV (period October 2004 to June 2010). Wilders is paying a lot of attention to the ‘old, classic’ fascist themes: nationalism, security, immigration policy and politics. His very emotional language style includes many strong metaphors that provokes unrest and that must convince people of the need for change. For content and style in the language of Wilders were found so many attributes of an extreme right-wing discourse.

scholarly journals Why are Extreme Right Parties so Popular in Europe?

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Radu-Vladimir Rauta
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
The Past ◽  
Real Increase ◽  
Recent Activity ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Extreme Right Parties

This topic has witnessed a real increase in media coverage due to the recent activity of extreme right parties across Europe, notable being in the past year the Greek parties and the Dutch stance regarding immigration. For answering the question, and following the pathway of the module, the essay is looking at the extreme right parties in four European countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. Research for this paper has been focused mostly on the specialised literature, Pietro Ignazi being brought into discussion the most. Because of the large variables over years, the essay is looking at the parties from the 1960s until the early 2000s.

Stigmatization and Repression of Extreme-Right Activism in the Netherlands

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Linden ◽  
Bert Klandermans
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Daily Hassles ◽  
The Political ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
State Repression ◽  
Interpersonal Conflicts ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Way

This article discusses repression and stigmatization of movement activists. Building on recent discussions of repression and mobilization of social movements, a distinction is made between hard and soft repression. These forms of repression are further differentiated into state repression, confrontation with countermovements, and exclusion from the political and social environment. It is argued that all of these forms of repression work simultaneously. Furthermore, it is argued that a climate of soft repression facilitates hard repression. This reasoning is evidenced by material from in-depth interviews with thirty-six activists from the extreme-right movement in the Netherlands. Indeed, all forms of repression are experienced by the interviewees. The way they cope with repression depends on their pathway into activism. Disengagement from the movement appears to be unrelated to repression, but rather due to the daily hassles, interpersonal conflicts, and petty complaints as part of movement activism.

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