Conceptualising backlash politics: Introduction to a special issue on backlash politics in comparison

Alter, Karen J.; Zürn, Michael

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dc.contributor.author	Alter, Karen J.	de
dc.contributor.author	Zürn, Michael	de
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-30T12:23:51Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-30T12:23:51Z
dc.date.issued	2020	de
dc.identifier.issn	1467-856X	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/78331
dc.description.abstract	Despite the widespread sense that backlash is an important feature of contemporary national and world politics, there is remarkably little scholarly work on the politics of backlash. This special issue conceptualises backlash politics as a distinct form of contentious politics. Backlash politics includes the following three necessary elements: (1) a retrograde objective of returning to a prior social condition, (2) extraordinary goals and tactics that challenge dominant scripts, and (3) a threshold condition of entering mainstream public discourse. When backlash politics combines with frequent companion accelerants - nostalgia, emotional appeals, taboo breaking and institutional reshaping - the results can be unpredictable, contagious, transformative and enduring. Contributions to this special issue engage this definition to advance our understanding of backlash politics. The special issue's conclusion draws insights about the causes and dynamics of backlash politics that lead to the following three potential outcomes: a petering out of the politics, the construction of new cleavages, or a retrograde transformation. Creating a distinct category of backlash politics brings debates in American politics, comparative politics, and international relations together with studies of specific topics, facilitating comparisons across time, space, and issue areas and generating new questions that can hopefully promote lesson drawing.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject.ddc	Political science	en
dc.subject.other	backlash politics; contestation; emotional politics; nostalgia; public discourse; retrograde; taboo breaking	de
dc.title	Conceptualising backlash politics: Introduction to a special issue on backlash politics in comparison	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
dc.source.volume	22	de
dc.publisher.country	GBR	de
dc.source.issue	4	de
dc.subject.classoz	politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur	de
dc.subject.classoz	Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture	en
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0	en
ssoar.contributor.institution	WZB	de
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	563-584	de
internal.identifier.classoz	10504
internal.identifier.journal	1700
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	320
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148120947958	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
internal.identifier.licence	16
internal.identifier.pubstatus	1
internal.identifier.review	1
internal.dda.reference	https://www.econstor.eu/oai/request@@oai:econstor.eu:10419/227463
ssoar.urn.registration	false	de

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