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The radical right and demographic populism

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This book introduces the concept of radical right demographic populism to examine how demographic fears are weaponised to redefine identity and justify exclusion, framing change as an existential t...
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This book introduces a new framework for understanding how the radical right reimagines demographic change as an existential threat. Across Europe and the Americas, low birth rates, immigration, and gender equality are reframed as signs of civilisational decline. This volume explores how radical right actors mobilise fears around fertility, migration, race, family, and sexuality through narratives of crisis, ethnic purity, and control over borders, reproduction, and social norms. It examines conspiracy thinking fuelled by demographic anxiety to justify attacks on gender and sexual rights and reinforce exclusionary ideas of national belonging. Grounded in empirical case studies and interdisciplinary approaches, this book reveals how these narratives converge to reinforce dominance of a native, heteronormative, Christian population. In linking domains often treated separately, it provides a timely and critical perspective on the evolving logic of radical right politics worldwide.
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Price: £90.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Global Studies of the Far Right
Publication Date: 14 July 2026
ISBN: 9781526192240
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Comparative politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies
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Klaudia Koxha is a post-doctoral researcher in political science at the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Lausanne.

Oscar Mazzoleni is a professor in political science and political sociology at the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Lausanne.

Introduction: Populism and demography - Oscar Mazzoleni and Klaudia Koxha
1 Grounding anti-immigration and pro-traditional family values on science? An exploration of discursive normalisation of the great replacement theory online in Italy and France - Alberta Giorgi
2 Unborn populism: transnational anti-abortion strategies and demographic talk - Carol Mason
3 Resisting homophobic populism in Latin America - Javier Corrales
4 Politicising demography: the Latin American populist radical right in historical perspective - Carlos de la Torre
5 Politicising demographic change in Austria: how the populist radical right mobilises against Muslims - Reinhard Heinisch and Diana Lucia Hofmann
6 Strategies of normalising demographic fears: Fratelli d’Italia from the margin to the mainstream - Oscar Mazzoleni and Emilia Meini
7 Radical-right populism, youth and demographic issues: the Austrian Freedom Party - Klaudia Koxha
8 Demographic entanglements: fascist and colonial reflections in the discourse and policy of the populist radical right on natality - Marianna Griffini
9 Bolsonaro’s (anti-)gender ideology: social policies and attitudes among female supporters - Juliana Chueri and Catarina Ianni Segatto
Conclusion: Demographic populism, conspiracy, and the radical-right counter-revolution - Klaudia Koxha and Oscar Mazzoleni
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