Populism in Europe – An increasingly polarized landscape
By Alexandru Filip. Recent elections and election forecasts have given us many a reason to pause and think about the evolution of the political landscape in Europe and beyond. In […]
By Alexandru Filip. Recent elections and election forecasts have given us many a reason to pause and think about the evolution of the political landscape in Europe and beyond. In […]
By Charlotte de Roon. For a while now, Dutch politics is being rocked by a new party on the scene: the Party for Freedom (Dutch: Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV). […]
Four reasons why the AfD’s polling might collapse over the next year By Timo Lochocki. The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) seems unstoppable. In September they won 20.8% at […]
By Honorata Mazepus & Agata Mazepus. Poland has been considered an exemplary case of regime change in the third wave of democratisation. Poland’s democratic reforms and development of market economy […]
Most populist parties start out as radicals, and once they have managed to build up a solid base they will gradually shift to somewhat more moderate positions. Hungary’s populist governing party goes the other way: Fidesz, the Alliance of Young Democrats ran as a liberal party on the first free Hungarian elections. At the time their main target audience was educated young people who were looking for a democratic alternative to state socialism. Today they promote “illiberalism,” and their popularity is based on fearmongering.
Unlike the rest of Europe, with the exception of Portugal, Spain remains immune to the rise of populist radical right parties. But since the 2014 European election Spain is experiencing its own populist phenomenon – one that has emerged from the left side of the political spectrum. The birth and consolidation of Podemos in less than 2 years is one of the most remarkable political achievements in recent European politics, and it has shaken the whole Spanish political system.
By Maria Tyrberg.
Unlike its fellow Nordic neighbours, Sweden was for long an exception to the electoral support of radical right-wing parties. Apart from the short-lived appearance of New Democracy in the early 1990s, the country for long did not follow the trend of increased presence of radical right-wing parties as in other European parliaments.
Blogseries I: The new populist parties in Europe? By Ioannis Vlastaris and Konstantinos Kostagiannis. The formation of Syriza (Coalition of Radical Left) as a unitary party is a recent development.
Prelude to the blog series: The new populist parties in Europe? By Anne Heyer. Europe’s new spectre A spectre is haunting Europe. No, this time around it is not Marx’ […]