Varieties of Populism in Europe in Times of Crises

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Manuela Caiani (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM), Italy) Paolo Graziano (University of Padua, Italy)

Varieties of Populism in Europe in Times of Crises

Manuela Caiani (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM), Italy), Paolo Graziano (University of Padua, Italy)

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Routledge
25 September 2023

Political ideologies; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies; Fascism & Nazism; Political economy

Series: West European Politics

Populism is booming across all the nuances of the political spectrum. It occupies relevant positions in national parliaments, in governmental coalitions with mainstream parties or as successful challengers of the political status quo. This volume sheds new light on the topic from different methodological and theoretical angles and offers evidence from a variety of cases on the ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions on populism’s emergence and consolidation in Europe over the past 30 years.

The volume, composed of eight chapters, investigates how different populist parties in the European Union have been affected by the various crises, disentangling the role of the Great Recession vis-à-vis other factors (such as political and party system factors, but also structural social changes or cultural opportunities) in the growing strength of populist parties in various European countries. More specifically, the volume aims are to:

promote critical discussion on the concept of populism, reflecting on its conceptual ‘usability’ beyond the traditional party families to which it is usually related;

use a preliminary theoretical clarification to shed new light on the different ways in which populism has been articulated in the various European countries (either in Continental and Southern Europe, or in the lesser known and studied East-Central countries) since the economic crisis, which has acted as an external shock for many party systems, either giving birth to new political actors or consolidating existing ones;

investigate the connections between populism and the national contextual political and cultural specificities that can determine the development of different types of populisms across countries, elaborating on different ‘configurations’ of triggering conditions for populism and reflecting on the limitations of a discrete conceptualisation of the phenomenon.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.

Edited by: Manuela Caiani (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM) Italy), Paolo Graziano (University of Padua, Italy)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9780367743468
ISBN 10: 0367743469
Series: West European Politics
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Manuela Caiani is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) of Florence, Italy. Her research interests focus on comparative politics, right wing and left wing populism in Europe, social movements, radical right politics and qualitative methods of social research. Paolo Graziano is Professor of Political Science, un the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua, Italy, and Research Associate at the European Social Observatory, Brussels, Belgium. His research interests focus on Europeanisation, comparative welfare state politics, comparative social policy and populism.