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Abstract
far-right parties, historically regarded as ‘anti-democratic’ (either by their desire to overthrow political institutions or by the ideologies they convey — nationalism, racism, xenophobia, etc.), acquire significant electoral legitimacy. Our doctorate focuses on the relationship between these parties and the concept of ‘democracy’. In our work, we propose to focus on ideological productions of the National Rassemblement in France, the FPÖ in Austria and the AfD in Germany. We question their speeches as an addition of a text and its context. The speech is used here as a tool to access strategies, ideologies or representations of the social world. After drawing up a theoretical overview of the relations between the far right and democracy, we will structure our reflection in three stages: — does the extreme right embody the concept of democracy? (content analysis) — how does the extreme right define democracy? (scoping analysis) — why does the extreme right use the concept of democracy in its speeches? (analysis of critical narratives) As will be explained, although the extreme right is considered to be undemocratic by its nature or the values it conveys, the fact remains that it has links with the concept of democracy. However, the definition of democracy in far-right speeches mainly refers to tools and procedures (elections, referendums, etc.). In addition, the ‘people’, the central topic of democracy, is also specifically defined.