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The Mechanisms of Political Mobilization in Different Countries
I think the commonality across all these countries lies is in the mechanisms that connect the grievances to the presence of radical right politics. So you can have people agree for all kinds of reasons but what opportunistic political candidates seem to be doing in all of these countries is to take these various grievances and bundle them into a sense of overall status threat. That's how pre-existing nationalist cleavages become all of a sudden mobilize right and lead to greater support for radical right politicians.