Giorgos Katsambekis - The Populist Radical Left in Europe

Building on a comprehensive theoretical framework that draws on discursive and ideational approaches to populism, this volume offers a comparative mapping of the Populist Radical Left in contemporary Europe. It explores the novel discursive, political and organisational features of several political actors, as well as the conditions of their emergence and success, while being alert to the role of relevant social movements.

Chapters feature case studies of the Greek party Syriza, the Spanish Podemos, the German Die Linke, Jean-Luc Mlenchon and France Insoumise, the Dutch Socialist Party and the Slovenian Levica. Jeremy Corbyns leadership of Labour in the UK and Momentum, the movement that supports him is also examined. A separate chapter is devoted to recent grassroots social movements that can be seen as instances of progressive populism, such as the squares movement in Spain and Greece.

This book fills a crucial gap in the literature on radical left politics and populism in Europe, contributing to the rapidly burgeoning field of populism studies.

Giorgos Katsambekis is a Lecturer in European and International Politics at Loughborough University.

Alexandros Kioupkiolis is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Political Theory at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Giorgos Katsambekis is a lecturer in European and International Politics at Loughborough University. He has co-edited the volume Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today (Ashgate, 2014). His recent work has appeared in The Political Quarterly, Constellations, European Political Science, JavnostThe Public, Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Discourse Studies and The Journal of Political Ideologies.

Alexandros Kioupkiolis is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Political Theory at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests are focused on radical democracy, the commons, social movements and the philosophy of freedom. He is directing an ERC COG project on these topics (Heteropolitics, 20172020) and has published numerous relevant books and papers, including the monograph Freedom after the critique of foundations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and the collective volume Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today (Ashgate, 2014). His new monograph is entitled he Common and Counter-hegemonic Politics (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

Jonathan Dean is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds. His specialisms include gender, political theory and left-wing politics. He has recently published articles in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Social Movement Studies, Contemporary Political Theory, Contemporary British History and Capital and Class (the latter co-authored with Dan Keith and Bice Maiguashca).

Dan Hough is a Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex. He studied at the universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Leipzig before getting his PhD from the University of Birmingham (2000). He has published widely on German politics and political corruption and hes a co-author (with Simon Green and Alister Miskimmon) of The Politics of the New Germany (Routledge, 2018).

Dan Keith is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of York. He completed his PhD at the Sussex European Institute at the University of Sussex (2011). He recently co-edited (with Luke March) Europes Radical Left: From Marginality to the Mainstream? (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).

Paul Lucardie (1946) obtained his PhD at Queens University (Kingston, Canada). Since 1979, he has been affiliated with the Documentation Centre on Dutch Political Parties (DNPP) at the University of Groningen. In 2011 he published together with Gerrit Voerman Populisten in de polder (Amsterdam: Boom), a history of populism in the Netherlands. In 2013 he published All Power to the People! Democratic Extremism in Theory and Practice (Routledge).

Bice Maiguashca is a Senior Lecturer of Politics at Exeter University whose current research interests include radical political theory, feminist activism, left-wing politics and populism. Her most recent journal publications include: Pulling Together in a Crisis? Anarchism, Feminism and the Limits of Left-wing Convergence in Austerity Britain, (co-authored with Jonathan Dean and Dan Keith),