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Connective action and the rise of the far-right
platforms, politics, and the crisis of democracy
(Managing director of the Moynihan Center)
In 'Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right', the contributors explain democratic backsliding in the 21st century through what it terms a cross-disciplinary engagement between democracy scholars and data scientists. The former describe the necessary social and economic conditions for a healthy democracy, while the latter tell us something about the role of digital platforms in the realization (or not) of these same conditions. In turn, volume editors Steven Livingston and Michael Miller bring these two broad research traditions together to define a new analytical framework for understanding the potential demise of contemporary democracy. The chapters argue that the current threat to democracy comes from the organisation of illiberal movements, both on and offline. Put differently, democratic backsliding is the consequence of far-right connective action.
Foreword: The conservative dilemma in the digital age / Daniel Ziblatt -- Preface / Steven Livingston and Michael Miller -- Technological and institutional roots of democratic backsliding in the United States / W. Lance Bennett and Steven Livingston -- Unraveling the big lie: participatory disinformation and the 2020 election / Kate Starbird -- How QAnon developed from a fringe group to a digital surrogate for the GOP / Josephine Lukito, Yunkang Yang, and Sang Jung Kim -- The democratic decay within: the US Republican party and QAnon as a digital surrogate / Daniel Kreiss and Aaron Sugarman -- In-groups and outrage: how narratives and affect shape digital surrogate networks and radicalize right-wing parties / Curd Knüpfer and Ulrike Klinger -- Japan's Netto Uyoku and the crisis of transnational digital surrogate organizations / Julia R. DeCook and Brett J. Fujioka -- Advocates and authoritarians: surrogate management and asymmetric party development in American politics / Adam Hilton -- Exploring the motivations of the MAGA movement / Christopher Sebastain Parker and Rachel M. Blum -- The rise of conservative illiberalism and the parallel ascendance of right-wing surrogates / Steven Feldstein -- Hating the other as a cross-cutting issue: assessing the role of a media surrogate organizations / Babak Bahador and Daniel Kerchner -- Demographic determinism, Republican identity, and democratic backsliding / Andrew Ifedapo Thompson -- Digital death spiral: how analytics hastened the Republican party's descent into Trumpism / David Karpf -- Conclusion / Steven Livingston and Michael Miller.
edited by Steven Livingston, Michael Miller.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Journalism and political communication unbound