Varieties of Populism in Europe in Times of Crises
Populism is flourishing across all the nuances of the political spectrum. It increasingly occupies relevant positions in national parliaments, in governmental coalitions with mainstream parties or as a successful challenger of the political status quo. This volume sheds new light on the topic from different methodological and theoretical angles and offers evidence from a variety of cases on the why and how questions behind populisms emergence and consolidation in Europe over the past 30 years.
The volume, composed of eight chapters, investigates how different populist parties in the European Union have been affected by various crises, disentangling the role of the Great Recession vis--vis other factors (such as political and party system factors, but also structural social changes or cultural opportunities) in the growing strength of populist parties in various European countries. More specifically, the volume aims to:
promote critical discussion on the concept of populism, reflecting on its conceptual usability beyond the traditional party families to which it is usually related;
use a preliminary theoretical clarification to shed new light on the different ways in which populism has been articulated in the various European countries (either in Continental and Southern Europe, or in the lesser known and studied East-Central countries) since the economic crisis, which has acted as an external shock for many party systems, either giving birth to new political actors or consolidating existing ones;
investigate the connections between populism and the national contextual political and cultural specificities that can determine the development of different types of populisms across countries, elaborating on different configurations of triggering conditions for populism and reflecting on the limitations of a discrete conceptualisation of the phenomenon.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.
Manuela Caiani is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) of Florence, Italy. Her research interests focus on comparative politics, right wing and left wing populism in Europe, social movements, radical right politics and qualitative methods of social research.
Paolo Graziano is Professor of Political Science, in the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua, Italy, and Research Associate at the European Social Observatory, Brussels, Belgium. His research interests focus on Europeanisation, comparative welfare state politics, comparative social policy and populism.
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Varieties of Populism in Europe in Times of Crises
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Contents
Manuela Caiani and Paolo Graziano
Daniele Caramani and Luca Manucci
Laurent Bernhard and Hanspeter Kriesi
Simon Usherwood
Yves Surel
Lorenzo Mosca and Filippo Tronconi
Marco Lisi, Ivn Llamazares and Myrto Tsakatika
Sarah Engler, Bartek Pytlas and Kevin Deegan-Krause
The chapters in this book were originally published in West European Politics, volume 42, issue 6 (September 2019). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
