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    AUR : the electoral geography of Romanian conservative nationalism
    (SAGE Publications, 2023) Crăciun, Claudiu; Țăranu, Andrei
    In December 2020, Romania held elections for its new Parliament amid the pandemic crisis. The voter turnout was historically low, at 31.84%. The Alliance for the Union of Romanians, a new party, won 9% ofthe vote, making it the fourth largest party in the Parliament. Having received only 0.29% of the votes in thelocal elections held 2 months prior, Alliance for the Union of Romanians' success was unexpected. To explain this outcome, we analyse its programmatic choices, political strategy and symbolic and electoralgeographies. The pandemic crisis allowed the consolidation of a nationalist and conservative constituency originating in the 2018 constitutional referendum to ban same-sex marriages. Romania's example shows that a nationalist-conservative radical party can become viable if extra-political groups, networks and organisations are willing to lend significant local support to it.
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    The resurrection of the radical political movements
    (SNSPA, 2014) Țăranu, Andrei
    In the last decade the radical political movements became a important threat to European democracies in the conditions of decline on popularity of main political ideological parties all across the Europe. Especially nationalist radical movements seems to became more popular between the citizens after they took from the populist parties the Euroskeptical message and the radical message against minorities or immigrants. The extremist message of those parties or radical movements it s pretty much the same even they are located in different counties or cultures. The radical message of Golden Dawn in Greece an Christian Orthodox culture is similar with the Magyar Hajnal (Hungarian Dawns) in Hungary a Catholic and Protestant culture or Progress Party from Norway a more secular culture than religious based. Our paper is focused on the origins of those parties in Europe and their radical message against immigrants or social/ethnic minorities. We argue that such parties succeed over the long term only when they both 1) build on pre-existing nationalist organizations and networks and 2) face a permissive rather than repressive political environment. Those parties develop themsleves on the fertile ground of far right wing populism and assume a very narrow to the fascist discourse of the beginings of the XXth century in order to contest the economical and democratic order. By adding factors such as historical legacies, party organization, and interactions between mainstream parties and far right challengers to the study of radical right parties, we can better understand their divergent trajectories"