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Populism and representative politics in contemporary Europe
In this paper I apply the definition of populism that I laid out in P. Taggart, Populism (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2000) and argue that recent developments in Europe provide a fertile ground for the emergence of populism. Europe is taken to in its widest sense to include the European Union as well as the 'wider Europe'. The argument of the paper is that populism will emerge (and has already appeared) in many different forms and will appear as a series of fractured instances. Combined with the self-limiting effects of populism this means that populism will not amount to a wider 'European' force but its appearance does highlight dilemmas of representative politics in Europe.
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Journal of Political IdeologiesISSN
1356-9317Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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3Volume
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269-288Pages
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- Politics Publications
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This article took the earlier work on populism developed by PT and applied it to the contemporary cases in European politics. The importance of this article lies in the application of empirical cases and a refining of the conceptual model developed in earlier work.Full text available
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C FieschiLegacy Posted Date
2012-02-06Usage metrics
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