Populist parties and the failure of the political elites
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The author analyses the reasons behind the electoral success of European right-wing populist parties. Using the Austrian Freedom Party under Jörg Haider as a case study and with a richness of primary material, he argues that their success is only partly caused by «racism». It is also, and more prominently, the result of populism – i. e. a critique of the «elite». These parties and their voters should not, then, be labelled as arrogant insiders attacking downtrodden outsiders like immigrants, workers, and minorities. Instead, the right-wingers are more justly portrayed as outsiders and underdogs, raising their anger and frustration against the insiders: the «media elite» and the «leftists and the artists».
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Populist parties and the failure of the political elites, Göran Adamson
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- 2016
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- Populist parties and the failure of the political elites
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Göran Adamson
- Verlag
- Peter Lang Edition
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2016
- Einband
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 3631661584
- ISBN13
- 9783631661581
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- DemOkrit
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- Politikwissenschaft
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- The author analyses the reasons behind the electoral success of European right-wing populist parties. Using the Austrian Freedom Party under Jörg Haider as a case study and with a richness of primary material, he argues that their success is only partly caused by «racism». It is also, and more prominently, the result of populism – i. e. a critique of the «elite». These parties and their voters should not, then, be labelled as arrogant insiders attacking downtrodden outsiders like immigrants, workers, and minorities. Instead, the right-wingers are more justly portrayed as outsiders and underdogs, raising their anger and frustration against the insiders: the «media elite» and the «leftists and the artists».