European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession [Hardcover]

This volume, covering twenty-five populist parties in seventeen European states, presents the first comparative study of the impact of the Great Recession on populism. Chapters offer a highly differentiated view of how the interplay between economic and political crises helped produce patterns of populist development across Europe. '&a convincing, informative and relevant analysis'This volume, covering twenty-five populist parties in seventeen European states, presents the first comparative study of the impact of the Great Recession on populism.This volume, covering twenty-five populist parties in seventeen European states, presents the first comparative study of the impact of the Great Recession on populism. Based on a common analytical framework, chapters offer a highly differentiated view of how the interplay between economic and political crises helped produce patterns of populist development across Europe. Populism grew strongly in Southern and Central-Eastern Europe, particularly where an economic crisis developed in tandem with a political one. Nordic populism went also on the rise, but this regions populist parties have been surprisingly responsible. In Western Europe, populism actually contracted during the crisis  with the exception of France. As for the two Anglo-Celtic countries, while the UK has experienced the rise of a strong anti-European populist force, Ireland stands out as a rare case in which no such a party has risen in spite of the severity of its economic and political crises.List of Figures and Tables viiList of Contributors xiPreface xvChapter One  Populism in Europe During Crisis: An Introduction 1Hanspeter Kriesi and Takis S. PappasPART I: THE NORDIC REGIONChapter Two  Institutionalised Right-Wing Populism in Times ofEconomic Crisis: A Comparative Study of the NorwegianProgress Party and the Danish Peoples Party 23Anders R. Jupsk?sChapter Three  Business as Usual: Ideology and Populist Appeals ofthe Sweden Democrats 41Ann-Cathrine JulSÁ