European 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: Ecpr Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2016
• EAN: 9781785522345
• ISBN: 978-1-78552-234-5
• No. of pages: 396
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 600 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education