Anti‐elitism in the European Radical Right in Comparative Perspective
本研究区分了针对具体权力精英（如默克尔）和泛指精英群体的两种反精英主义，分析了2019年欧洲议会选举中六个国家激进右翼政党的在线传播，发现反对党多攻击本国精英，执政党则聚焦欧盟层面，揭示了反精英主义的工具性使用。
To better understand the communication of anti‐elitism in contemporary politics, this study conceptually differentiates between specific anti‐elitism geared toward specific, materially powerful elites (‘Angela Merkel’) and general anti‐elitism referencing broader discursive constructs (‘the elite’). The study analyses the online communications of radical right parties in the 2019 European Parliament elections from six countries (Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Poland and Sweden). This more fine‐grained analysis of anti‐elitism highlights some areas of transnational convergence, such as a tendency to focus on specific political elites, rather than other sectors such as the media or discursive constructs. The findings also reveal stratification according to parties' position in national power structures: opposition parties tend to target national‐level elites while governing parties focus on the European level. The findings highlight that anti‐elitism is used in a highly instrumental way, and help us to better understand the intersection between anti‐elitism and the multilevel politics of EP elections.