Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession

This volume, covering twenty-five populist parties in seventeen European states, presents the first comparative study of the impact of the Great Recession on populism. Based on a common analytical framework, chapters offer a highly differentiated view of how the interplay between economic and political crises helped produce patterns of populist development across Europe. Populism grew strongly in Southern and Central-Eastern Europe, particularly where an economic crisis developed in tandem with a political one. Nordic populism went also on the rise, but this region's populist parties have been surprisingly responsible. In Western Europe, populism actually contracted during the crisis - with the exception of France. As for the two Anglo-Celtic countries, while the UK has experienced the rise of a strong anti-European populist force, Ireland stands out as a rare case in which no such a party has risen in spite of the severity of its economic and political crises.

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Edited by Hanspeter Kriesi and Takis S Pappas

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• Assisted by: Hanspeter Kriesi (Editor), Takis S Pappas (Editor), Takis S. Pappas (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues_UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2015
• EAN: 9781785521249
• ISBN: 978-1-78552-124-9
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 240 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Studies in European Political Science (SEPS)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education