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- Stijn Kessel
- Department of Politics, History and International Relations, Loughborough University, UK
Institut für Deutsches und Internationales Parteienrecht und Parteienforschung (PRuF), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
- Department of Politics, History and International Relations, Loughborough University, UK
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Populism is a concept that is currently in vogue among political commentators and, more often than not, used pejoratively. The phenomenon of populism is typically seen as something adverse and, in the European context routinely related to xenophobic 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 not 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 innovative 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.
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Authors and Affiliations
Department of Politics, History and International Relations, Loughborough University, UK
Stijn Kessel
Institut für Deutsches und Internationales Parteienrecht und Parteienforschung (PRuF), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Stijn Kessel
About the author
Stijn van Kessel is Lecturer in European Politics at Queen Mary University of London. His main research interests are populism, Euroscepticism, and the discourse, voters and electoral performance of populist parties in Europe. He authored articles in journals including European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Political Ideologies and Government and Opposition.
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- Book Title: Populist Parties in Europe
- Book Subtitle: Agents of Discontent?
- Authors: Stijn Kessel
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137414113
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
- eBook Packages: Palgrave Political Science Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
- Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
- Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-41410-6Published: 10 February 2015
- Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49012-7Published: 01 January 2015
- eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-41411-3Published: 17 February 2015
- Edition Number: 1
- Number of Pages: IX, 239
- Topics: European Politics, Democracy, Political Science, European Union Politics, Electoral Politics, Public Policy