In the seventh episode of “Political Science? No Problem et al.” we talk to Vicente Valentim about the role of norms in the normalization of the far-right. How do social norms influence the expression of radical-right political preferences? How do skilled far-right candidates strategically erode social norms through entrepreneurship? How does a norm-based theory of far-right support interact with economic and cultural explanations? Moreover, we talked about what Vicentes research implies for strategies on countering far-right parties. 

You can find Vicentes website here: https://www.vicentevalentim.com/  and follow him on Twitter here: https://x.com/ValentimVicente

and here on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/valentimvicente.bsky.social.  The book discussed in the episode can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/book/57946?login=false

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