Open Access”Danmark er danskernes land”: Højrepopulistisk diskurs i Danmark
Author(s) -
Silas L. Marker
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2446-0893
DOI - 10.7146/politik.v23i1.120315
Subject(s) - elite , danish , populism , right wing , politics , phenomenon , political science , immigration , sociology , power (physics) , gender studies , law , linguistics , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics
This paper examines the phenomenon of right-wing populism in Denmark in the year of 2019 by applying qualitative discourse analysis to a sample of central public texts from the right-wing populist parties New Right and The Danish People’s Party. Both parties utilize populist discourse by constructing a popular bloc (“the people”) stabilized by its constitutive outside: The elite and the Muslim immigrants. However, the discourses of the two parties differ from each other insofar as New Right articulates the strongest antagonism between the people and the elite, while The Danish People’s Party downplays this antagonism, most likely because the party has a central power position in Danish politics.