Going Local, Going Mainstream? Ethnographic Study of Two French Cities Governed by the Rassemblement National
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2024
- ISIDORE Id: 10670/1.27a8cd...
- hal: hal-04616753
- doi: 10.1017/gov.2024.4
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Elisa Bellè et al., « Going Local, Going Mainstream? Ethnographic Study of Two French Cities Governed by the Rassemblement National », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.1017/gov.2024.4
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The government actions of populist radical right (PRR) parties have predominantly been scrutinized at the national level, leaving a critical aspect - their territorial foothold - largely unexplored. Through a comparative ethnographic study of two medium-sized French towns governed by the Rassemblement National since 2014, this article delves into how seizing municipal power has influenced the party s efforts towards mainstreaming. We examine the party s strategy, aimed at institutionalization, which relies on a blend of rhetoric emphasizing proximity, pragmatism, and non-partisan administration while preserving fundamental ideological elements of the radical right. This amalgamation of mainstreaming and radicalism, adaptive to different contexts and audiences, is termed adaptable ideology . Our study makes significant contributions to two pivotal aspects of the literature: understanding the mainstreaming trajectory of PRR parties and exploring the recent, localist turn in the study of this political realm.
