Populism on the loose: seminal perflections on the condition of differentiality (original) (raw)

The objective of this article is to improve our understanding of the development of populism within the nordic countries as part of the European context. The point of departure is a Nordic comparative perspective combined with a retrospective analysis of the nordic populist parties of yesterday and today. The history of Nordic populism can be described as a changing process where different types of populism have been present at different periods of time. In the early 1970s the focus was on taxation issues in combination with populist appeals of political discontent. From the beginning of the 1980s up till today, populist appeals have evolved around aspects connected to concerns about immigration and nationalism. Popular dissatisfaction can also vary in content over time and space, regardless of whether it is based on ‘too high taxes and increasing bureaucracy and the public sector’ (= the tax issue) or ‘too high refugee and asylum immigration’ (= refugeeand immigration issues) based...

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