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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s populist gamble
The irony is despite dismissing notions of left and class, the sociology of Mélenchon’s electorate is clearly...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populism and fraternity in Portugal
There are moments of truth in which, due to some sort of blip in the functioning of the oligarchic system that...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What causes the populist infection? How can it be cured?
In all countries, established political parties have the dangerous propensity to counter this electoral wave of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The mystery of ‘populism’ finally unveiled
The philosopher of post-Fascism enters the populism fray with his own candidate for post-truth – Left betrayal. Czech.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The strange death of social democracy in Europe
What happened to social democratic parties in Europe? And what is coming to take their place?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populism, popularity and political leadership
Is a stance against the political, economic and cultural ‘elites’ a sufficient condition for populism?
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Published in: HomeFinally, an end to the cold war?
The much-needed new relationship with the citizenry must involve an end to the conjuring up of an external enemy and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populism with no leaders: the rise of 'citizenism' and how to understand it
Is left-wing populism the best response to right-wing populism? An interview with Paolo Gerbaudo on 'citizenism' -...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Syriza and ANEL: a match made in Greece
Are we seeing the convergence of Syriza and their right-wing coalition partners, ANEL, into a single party?
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Published in: HomeDonald Trump and the return of class: an interview with Francis Fukuyama
“What is happening in the politics of the US particularly, but also in other countries, is that identity in a form...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Slovenian United Left: from protest to movement, and from movement to party
Overlooked by many in Europe, a quickly growing radical left party in Slovenia is providing an example to movement...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Radical left strategies in the era of the collapse of 'Actually Existing Liberalism'
A few decades after the fall of ‘actually existing socialism’, we are experiencing the fall of ‘actually existing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?'Populism' and 'counter-populism' in the Atlantic mirror
There are three major lessons for we Europeans in the US presidential elections. They necessarily lead us towards...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Fear of populism is hollowing out Europe’s leadership on refugees
Even where populists don’t win power through the ballot box, they gain it through shaping policy and public debate.
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Published in: HomeNo blank checks for Europe’s populists
The populist turn in the West since the global economic crisis is undermining Europe’s liberal democratic model. But...
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Published in: HomeJohn Dewey’s ‘intelligent populism’: beyond Brexit, Trump and post-truth
Both left and right populism are based on a low opinion of public intelligence (an assumption, incidentally, shared...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Populism and the return of the political
"A future you can believe in" is the reverse of "Make America great again", because it doesn’t retreat into moral...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe populist challenge
Does the fight against post-democracy require a populist political intervention? Español
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Published in: HomePopulism, the era of Trump and the rise of the far right
Several reasons for opening our eyes to the new/old politics of identity.
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Published in: HomeAgainst (the concept of) populism
The longstanding western fear of the people is central to representative democracy as it is understood today.