Cross-Channel Welfare Chauvinism: Backlash from Above and Below
This article provides a comparison of welfare chauvinism responses in France and England, and demonstrates that there is in the latter a much deeper rootedness of such nativist dynamics, not only vis-à-vis France, but also when compared with other European countries. The article also interrogates to...
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| description | This article provides a comparison of welfare chauvinism responses in France and England, and demonstrates that there is in the latter a much deeper rootedness of such nativist dynamics, not only vis-à-vis France, but also when compared with other European countries. The article also interrogates top-down and bottom-up approaches in the social sciences, particularly as they apply to welfare chauvinism. The extreme interconnectedness between the two is not acknowledged in classical studies of “populism”. Bringing together elite-driven discourses and grassroots interpellations of said elites, combining qualitative and quantitative data, the article underlines how deep-seated welfare chauvinist responses are in England, reaching back to at least the mid-1960s, whereas similar responses or dynamics (« seuil de tolérance », etc.) would appear to be much more recent in France, whose major radical-right, nativist party (Rassemblement National) only fairly recently tapped into such feelings. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-eb22822ad9874002bb2365e8c468a72e2024-12-09T15:25:50ZengCentre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation BritanniqueRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique0248-90152429-43732020-10-0125410.4000/rfcb.6827Cross-Channel Welfare Chauvinism: Backlash from Above and BelowOlivier EstevesThis article provides a comparison of welfare chauvinism responses in France and England, and demonstrates that there is in the latter a much deeper rootedness of such nativist dynamics, not only vis-à-vis France, but also when compared with other European countries. The article also interrogates top-down and bottom-up approaches in the social sciences, particularly as they apply to welfare chauvinism. The extreme interconnectedness between the two is not acknowledged in classical studies of “populism”. Bringing together elite-driven discourses and grassroots interpellations of said elites, combining qualitative and quantitative data, the article underlines how deep-seated welfare chauvinist responses are in England, reaching back to at least the mid-1960s, whereas similar responses or dynamics (« seuil de tolérance », etc.) would appear to be much more recent in France, whose major radical-right, nativist party (Rassemblement National) only fairly recently tapped into such feelings.https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/6827welfare statewelfare chauvinismtop-down / bottom-up approachesrace prejudicewhitenesspost-coloniality |
| spellingShingle | Olivier Esteves Cross-Channel Welfare Chauvinism: Backlash from Above and Below Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique welfare state welfare chauvinism top-down / bottom-up approaches race prejudice whiteness post-coloniality |
| title | Cross-Channel Welfare Chauvinism: Backlash from Above and Below |
| title_full | Cross-Channel Welfare Chauvinism: Backlash from Above and Below |
| title_fullStr | Cross-Channel Welfare Chauvinism: Backlash from Above and Below |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cross-Channel Welfare Chauvinism: Backlash from Above and Below |
| title_short | Cross-Channel Welfare Chauvinism: Backlash from Above and Below |
| title_sort | cross channel welfare chauvinism backlash from above and below |
| topic | welfare state welfare chauvinism top-down / bottom-up approaches race prejudice whiteness post-coloniality |
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