Populism and representative politics in contemporary Europe
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- 1 October 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Political Ideologies
- Vol. 9 (3) , 269-288
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1356931042000263528
Abstract
In this paper I apply the definition of populism that I laid out in P. Taggart, Populism (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2000) and argue that recent developments in Europe provide a fertile ground for the emergence of populism. Europe is taken to in its widest sense to include the European Union as well as the ‘wider Europe’. The argument of the paper is that populism will emerge (and has already appeared) in many different forms and will appear as a series of fractured instances. Combined with the self‐limiting effects of populism this means that populism will not amount to a wider ‘European’ force but its appearance does highlight dilemmas of representative politics in Europe.Keywords
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