“I am not saying that right-wing populists are new normal everywhere. But this is the direction of travel, and it is important to analyse what is happening.”
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Caught between Government measures and anti-vaccination movement, the Finns Party’s wait-and-see approach risks controversy of becoming “a corona party”.
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Belgium’s populists Vlaams Belang “bucks Coronavirus expectations by neither amplifying the sense of alarm or encouraging scepticism about experts”.
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In the Coronavirus pandemic, the Swiss People’s Party is still walking a very fine line between being in government and performing the role of an opposition.
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How does populism exploit insecurity for hostility towards “elites” and the “enemy”? An answer through Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon in France
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Finns Party successful leader Halla-aho steps down, but “if new leader follows his investment in connection with party on ground, it continues to thrive”.
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What are the lessons from “twilight of Spanish left populism” after resignation of Pablo Iglesias as Podemos leader and party turns into “normal” movement?
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Amid the rise of far right movements — some of them calling themselves “populist” — what hope is there for liberal democracy? Cas Mudde offers insight.
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“Despite reshuffling and division brought by pandemic, Italy’s populism coalition is in good electoral health with winning formula for foreseeable future.”
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Why did the populist radical right Finns Party expel its youth organization? Because the overt ethnic nativism of young activists threatened its legitimacy.
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Italy’s League is the world’s modern mass party — but can it export its model to Italian regions that in past were hostile and which the party derided?
Read More Discussing the rise of the populist radical right in Europe, and its status amid the crisis of the Coronavirus pandemic from Italy to Belgium
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Coronavirus’s challenge for Swiss People’s Party: “Once you’ve found success as an outside agitator, what do you do when you are part of the establishment?
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Way forward for Belgium’s right-wing populist Vlaams Belang: continue pairing local and personal with virtual in its development of 21st-century mass party.
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Swiss People’s Party is one of the most successful radical right populist parties in Western Europe since 1990s. But will internal issues limit its rise?
Read More The leaders of Italy’s two largest right-wing populist parties, Matteo Salvini (L) and...
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Women are underrepresented in right-wing populist parties but “gendered activism, policies, and images require more nuanced view & more considered response”
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The end of the National Rally? “Ten years on, Marine Le Pen has achieved much. But her best may not be enough for a far right ascendancy in France.”
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“Italy’s crisis has given way to political continuity — but in-fighting between ruling parties looks likely to be permanent feature of Draghi Government.”
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Europe’s growing family of radical right parties has a new member in Portugal. But is Chega just the one-man André Ventura Show?
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A 55-minute discussion about the development of right-wing populism and parties, and the situation of “mainstream” parties in response to the challenge
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How has Finland’s only right-wing populist parliamentary party reacted to the government’s actions during the first wave of the Coronavirus outbreak?
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Has far right imploded in The Netherlands after rise and fall of Thierry Baudet’s Forum for Democracy? The answer will be significant for March’s election.
Read More Coronavirus’s lesson is of a substantial resilience of the populist radical right, even in an unprecedented global crisis: “These parties are here to stay.”
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The Populism in Action Project is expanding. Hosted on EA WorldView since its launch in autumn...
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What European politics can learn from Vlaams Belang, the right-wing party in Belgium’s Flanders: “a nationalist approach incorporated populist narratives”
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“Dealing with populists’ parties will remain difficult balancing act into future for other parties, media actors, & civil society. Have a look at Germany.”
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Italy’s PM Conte has won credit for handling pandemic but “the economy is going to be hit very badly, and people are getting very tired of restrictions”.
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“Is Trump a populist? What are similarities and differences between Trump’s rhetoric and ideology and that of populists in Europe?” Five analysts discuss.
Read More What can we learn from examining populism across as well as within countries? Drs. Daniele Albertazzi, Stijn van Kessel, & Julien Mercille take on question.
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