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"Nazis Aren't Welcome Here": Selling Democracy in the Age of Far-Right Extremism
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Abstract This article critically examines the communicative and policy-framing response of Australia's Victorian government to the state's growing crisis of far-right extremism. Through a critical discourse analysis of the Victorian Andrews and Allan Labor governments' political communication from 2021 to 20... mehr
This article critically examines the communicative and policy-framing response of Australia's Victorian government to the state's growing crisis of far-right extremism. Through a critical discourse analysis of the Victorian Andrews and Allan Labor governments' political communication from 2021 to 2023, we explain how the government discursively responded to the rise of far-right extremism. We found the Andrews and Allan governments employed a range of communicative, discursive, and legitimisation strategies to both legitimise the government's policy to ban Nazi symbols and gestures and to (re)establish Victoria's reputation as an inclusive and multicultural liberal democracy. The findings of this article broaden our empirical understanding of the central role of political and crisis communication in responding to extremism and may provide a template for other governments to respond to the global crisis of far-right extremism.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Australien; Krisenkommunikation; Demokratie; politische Kommunikation; politische Rechte; Regierungspolitik; Rechtsradikalismus
Klassifikation
Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
extremism; far right; policy framing; public sphere
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2024
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 12 (2024)
Heftthema
Policy Framing and Branding in Times of Constant Crisis
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)