‘National’ and ‘Ethnic’ Democracy: Ideal and Discursive Arguments in Right-Wing Populist Discourses

The literature considers that right-wing populism is opposed to democracy (against its institutions or values). Nevertheless, it seems undeniable to me that right-wing populist parties claim, in their speeches, the notion of "democracy". I propose to study its meaning and mobilization. In more detail, I believe that the definitions of the term "democracy" in the discourse of right-wing populist parties is mainly oriented around a nationalist and chauvinist ideology.
Right-wing populist parties use the notion of democracy differently depending on the context of enunciation, i.e. according to types of production (speeches, press releases, interventions,…), audiences (journalists, voters, politicians,…) and periods (elections, Brexit, political scandals,...). I also observe that, in their speeches, the notion of democracy is ideologically structured. It is not neutral. It refers mainly to nationalism, chauvinism, inequality,... So I ask myself the following question: how does the nationalist ideology structure the notion of democracy in right-wing populist discourses?
To answer this question, I propose to focus on the ideological production of 2 parties (RN, FPÖ) to analyse mainly their political programmes, speeches and press releases. Discourse is mobilized here as a tool, a way of accessing intentions, strategies, ideas, opinions or feelings. In other words, through different modes of communication, political actors build and/or mobilize ideologies, values, customs and positions that they promote or reject. Speeches are thus materials from which I aim to identify representations, values, intentions and even acts of social creation.
For this research, I will combine a content analysis (co-occurrence of the term democracy and the national ideal) and a critical discourse analysis (how nationalism structures the representation and the mobilization of the notion of democracy). More generally, I will also explain to what extent nationalist ideology varies according to the parties (ethnic nationalism and state nationalism), against whom the notions of "national democracy" or "ethnic democracy" are mobilized (immigration, Islam, Europe,...), who they wishe to protect (a people specifically defines) and how the nationalist and ethnic rhetoric is structured (discursive elements, dichotomies, semantic environment,...).