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Populist Parties in Europe: Agents of Discontent? by Stijn Van Kessel (Hardback, 2015)

Populism is a concept that is currently in vogue among political commentators and, more often than t, used pejoratively. The phemen of populism is typically seen as something adverse and, in the European context routinely related to xephobic politics. What populism exactly is and who its main representatives are, however, often remains unclear. This text has two main aims: to identify populist parties in 21st century Europe and to explain their electoral performance. It argues that populist parties should t be dismissed as dangerous pariahs out of hand but rather that their rise tells us something about the state of representative democracy. The study has a broad scope, including populist parties of various ideological kinds - thus moving beyond examples of the 'right' - and covering long-established Western European countries as well as post-communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. It presents the results of an invative mixed-methods research project, combining a fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) of populist parties in 31 European countries with three in-depth case studies of the Netherlands, Poland and the United Kingdom.

Place of Publication
Basingstoke
Spine
20mm
Content Note
Biography
Author Biography
Stijn van Kessel is Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University, UK, and was previously an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellow at the Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany. He completed his doctoral research at the University of Sussex in 2011, and has published several book chapters and articles, including for leading publications such as Government and Opposition, Acta Politica and the Journal of Political Ideologies.
Date of Publication
04/02/2015
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Political Ideologies & Parties

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