RT Article
T1 Hybridization or Salad Bar Ideology? Testing Ideological Convergence Within the American Violent Far Right
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 71
IS 3
SP 830
OP 859
A1 Hemmila, Tess
A2 Perliger, Arie
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1917322615
AB In September 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray described far-right extremist motivations as “a mishmash” or “salad bar” of ideologies. Academics and practitioners have further promoted such ideas using case studies of inter-organizational collaboration. The current study tests the “Salad Bar” and Hybridization hypotheses by analyzing the online discourse of far-right extremist groups to identify similarities and differences in their designation of “adversaries,” topics of political discourse, support for violence, membership characteristics, and psychological dimensions. After computer-assisted analysis of ideological discourse samples, our findings indicate that there may be an initial overlap between far-right groups, but it is too early to assume hybridization across the far-right.
K1 online extremism
K1 Discourse Analysis
K1 Far-right
DO 10.1177/00111287241271288