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Published in: HomeThe helpless and the resourceful, or the beginnings of Polish populisms
Poland has two populisms: “the populism of the dispirited”, mobilising those who struggled to adjust to life in the...
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Published in: HomeThe Front National’s new clothes
Last year, Marine Le Pen came third in the French presidential elections, following a campaign seeking to...
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Published in: HomeFolkhemmet
In this excerpt from ‘Sweden: the reluctant nation’, published as part of Counterpoint’s ‘Europe’s Reluctant...
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Published in: HomeThe Front of the Ordinary Man
In the wake of the Italian elections, this excerpt from ‘Stagioni del populismo italiano’ examines populism in...
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Published in: HomeThe crumbling of Finland’s consensus culture: silence into rumpus
Finland underwent a spectacular populist upheaval in 2011, when the True Finns won over nearly one fifth of the vote...
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Published in: HomeHow populism grew its roots in the Netherlands
As politics and elite behaviour move away from consensus and inclusion, Geert Wilders has been able to capitalise on...
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Published in: HomeCovert and hidden populism in unified Germany
Why is it that unlike other European countries, Germany has not had a long-lasting populist party. Though some...
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Published in: HomeNational populism and xenophobia in Greece
‘National exceptionalism’ has long served as an antidote to the many disappointments that being a Greek has often...
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Published in: HomeInvestigating the reluctant radical
Young, male and unemployed: our representation of the typical supporter of European right-wing populist parties is...
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Published in: HomeA plague on both your populisms
Populist movements can bear a strong, but misleading, resemblance to more respectable cousins: movements for...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job