The Radical Right on Rise: The Success and Failure of Radical Right “Movement Parties” of the Visegrad 4 Countries

• Název práce v češtině: Radikální právo na vzestupu: Úspěch a neúspěch radikálních „hnutí strany“ zemí Visegrádské čtyřky
• Název v anglickém jazyce: The Radical Right on Rise: The Success and Failure of Radical Right “Movement Parties” of the Visegrad 4 Countries
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2019/2020
• Typ práce: diplomová práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Katedra sociologie (23-KS)
• Vedoucí / školitel: prof. PhDr. Ing. Ondřej Císař, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem
• Datum přihlášení: 13.05.2020
• Datum zadání: 13.05.2020

Zásady pro vypracování

As it is already mentioned, the descriptive analytical framework, which is suggested by Caiani and Císař (2018) will be used to structure the analysis. With using the work of McAdam, McCarthy and Zald (1996) as one of the primary sources, the political opportunity structure, resource mobilization and framing will be applied to analyze selected movement parties. More specifically, first, with applying the political opportunity structure, the political institutions in V4 countries regarding their openness and closeness, ‘the cultural side of (their) opportunity(ies)’ (Gamson and Mayer: 1996, 279) will be investigated. The success and failure of the movement parties of V4 countries in connection with the times of crises, generally the 2015 migrant crisis will be analyzed with the layer of ‘discursive opportunity structure’ (Koopmans and Statham, 1999) in order to understand the nature of contextual opportunities for those movement parties. Secondly, resource mobilization will be used to focus on the emergence and success of the movement parties regarding their organizational resources, networks, and the role of ideology (Caiani et al. 2012: Císař and Navratil, 2015). Lastly, the cultural and symbolic dimensions of the movement parties will be studied in order to understand their endless struggle to “determine the most compelling and effective way to bring the movement’s ‘message’ to the ‘people’ “ (McAdam, McCarthy and Zald, 1996:16).

Seznam odborné literatury

In order to study, at first the conceptual clarity in describing “radical right” and “movement parties” will be ensured. In doing so, Mudde (2000, 2007)’s works on conceptualization of “radical right” and Kitschelt (2006) and della Porta et al.(2017)’s works on “movement parties” will be used. In analyzing the interaction between radical right wing parties and radical right social movements and how the boundaries between movement and party have blurred will be scrutinized with addressing works of various scholars, such as; Minkenberg (2003, 2017, 2018), McAdam & Tarrow (2010, 2013), Hutter (2014), Císař and Navrátil (2015), Císař and Vrablíkova (2015), Caiani (2017), Gattinara and Pirro (2018), Caiani and Císař (2018). In order to build up the analytical framework of the thesis, the prominent reference point will be McAdam, McCarthy and Zald (1996)’s work on comparative perspectives on social movements. In support of their study, studies of several different scholars will be employed, such as; Kriesi et al. (1995), Gamson and Mayer (1996), Kriesi (2004), Giugni et al (2005), Tarrow (2011), Císař and Navrátil (2017), Muis and Immerzeel (2016) on political opportunity structure; McCarthy and Zald (1977), Edwards and McCarthy (2004), Koopmans et al. (2005), Caiani et al. (2012), Edwards et al. (2018) on resource mobilization; Jasper et al. (2001), Snow (2004), Rydgren (2003; 2008), Ketelaars et al. (2018) on framing.

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Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce

The end of Cold War was a milestone for world politics generally, and for European politics mainly. The demise of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc has had significant effects on people’s mobility across and within Europe. This new political and economic order in newly shaped Europe, has been a significant ground for rise of right-wing political parties and movements in Europe. The last two decades have opened many areas of discussion in the comparative literature of radical right wing politics in Western and Central and Eastern European regarding their political, social, economic, and cultural features. In addition to traditional discourse of party politics, there has been growing interest in discourse of social movement studies and their interaction with political parties, focusing on the rise in radical right wing political parties and their interaction with right wing social movements.