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We argue that including emotions and ideologies in our theoretical frameworks will allow us to unpack the decision-making process that leads individuals from accepting the status quo to mobilizing and opting for political violence. It will also help us understand the behavior of armed actors once individuals have been mobilized.
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The emotions most likely to be frequent companions to backlash politics tend to have a negative bent.
“Perhaps, because negative emotions are potent political mobilisers and disrupters, the emotions most likely to be frequent companions to backlash politics tend to have a negative bent (Costalli and Ruggeri, 2017).”
From Conceptualising backlash politics: Introduction to a special issue on backlash politics in comparison (2020) · cites this paper as Costalli and Ruggeri, 2017
In “Emotions, Ideologies and Violence: What We Know So Far” (p. 2), the paper says negative emotions are especially important to armed rebellion. Its table of emotions related to violent political mobilization (p. 3) lists fear, anger, resentment, and other negative emotions. This supports the general link to political mobilization, but the paper does not establish that negative emotions are frequent companions to backlash politics specifically. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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- Authors
- Costalli, S., & Ruggeri, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Florence (IT)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Venue
- Political Science and Politics
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2017-10
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 923-927
- ISSN
- 0030-8269 (ISSN-L)
- 1049-0965
- 1537-5935
- OpenAlex
- W2907405928
- Semantic Scholar
- c2997f973eba3c65960992a12f6751480bee50e9
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 4.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- PS Political Science & Politics (publishedVersion)
- VU Research Portal (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Florence Research (University of Florence) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Independent Social Research Foundation
- University of Oxford
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Keywords
- emotions, ideology, political violence, political mobilization, decision-making, armed actors, status quo
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