Overview
This is the first book-length account of populism in the Visegrád Four (V4) countries -- Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia -- for the first 30 years of multi-party competition since the transformative events of 1989-91 in Central and Eastern Europe. Advancing a post-foundational approach to populism based on a semi-formal reading of Ernesto Laclau's theory, the book undertakes a detailed examination of how the 'people' has been constructed in populist discourses in the party systems of the four countries since 1989. Drawing on a wealth of source material, the book offers both a wide-ranging and in-depth overview and classification of populism in the V4 in terms of discursive (e.g. centrist, conservative, left-wing, liberal, nationalist, social) and hegemonic type (e.g. authoritarian hegemonic, generational counter-hegemonic) alike. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of populism, party politics, and Central and Eastern Europe.
- | Author: Seongcheol Kim
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: 13-Aug-21
- | Number of Pages: 334 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1032015357
- | ISBN-13: 9781032015354
