From the provinces to the parliament: How the Ukrainian radical right mobilized in Galicia

Autor:	Alina Polyakova
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Radicalization Political opportunity Sociology and Political Science Parliament media_common.quotation_subject Ukrainian Development language.human_language Democracy Politics General election Law Political economy language Sociology media_common Social movement
Zdroj:	Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 47:211-225
ISSN:	1873-6920 0967-067X
Popis:	This article traces the on-the-ground mobilization and recruitment strategies of Ukraine’s radical right party, Svoboda (Freedom) in the years prior to its 2012 electoral breakthrough. Ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with Svoboda party leaders and activists in Galicia show how party leaders strategically created an organizational structure aimed at recruiting young people, making linkages with pre-existing nationalist groups, and shifting the ideological focus away from cultural and toward economic issues. Interviews with party activists reveal how personal networks were key in the recruitment and radicalization process, showing that radical right activists were radicalized, or “made,” through political participation. Consequently, Svoboda’s organizational capacity allowed the party to take advantage of a political opportunity — Yanukovych’s unpopularity and weakened national democratic parties — in the 2012 parliamentary elections.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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