Noah Dasanaike,
Graduate Student, Comparative Politics
Overview: In my research article, I deconstruct the concept of peripherality into several dimensions and estimates the effect of these dimensions on support for the radical right. More specifically, I propose physical, social, and economic dimensions of peripherality, drawing heavily from Bourdieu’s types of capital, and outline measures through which they may be estimated. I then elaborate on the theoretical underpinnings of, and provide several motivating examples for, each dimension. Finally, I draw on these separate dimensions of peripherality, and my respective proposed measures for each, to estimate the effect of different dimensions of peripherality on cross-national, cross-temporal support for national populism in Scandinavia; right-wing backlash in the United States; autocratic infrastructural capacity in Russia; and frontier politics in Canada and Australia.