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 region’s 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.
Paris Aslanidis is a PhD researcher at the University of Macedonia, Greece, studying the nexus between populism and social movements during the Great Recession. He has a background in engineering and philosophy of science.
Laurent Bernhard is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. His PhD thesis focused on the campaign strategies adopted by political actors in the context of direct-democratic campaigns. Together with Marco Steenbergen (University of Zurich) and Hanspeter Kriesi (EUI, Florence), he currently leads a project that deals with populism in Western Europe in the framework of the research programme NCCR Democracy.
Hans-Georg Betz is currently Adjunct Professor in political science at the University of Zurich. Previously he taught at York University, Toronto, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC and Koç University, Istanbul. He is the author of several books and articles on radical rightwing populism in Europe.
Giuliano Bobba is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society at the University of Turin. His research interests include: political communication and election campaigns; primaries elections; the evolution of political parties and leadership in Western democracies; the European integration process and the development of a European public sphere. He has published in particular on election campaigns, media and politics in Italy and France.
Zsolt Enyedi is Professor at the Political Science Department of Central European University. He (co)authored two and (co)edited eight volumes and published numerous articles and book chapters, mainly on party politics and political attitudes. His articles appeared in journals such as European Journal of Political Research, Political Studies, Political Psychology, West European Politics, Party Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, Perspectives on Politics, European Review, etc. He has received a number of academic awards such as the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize, 2003, Bibó Prize, 2004, and the Hungarian Academy Award 2020.
John FitzGibbon is senior lecturer in politics at School of Psychology, Politics and Sociology, Canterbury Christchurch University. His main areas of interest are Euroscepticism, European Political Economy, Social Movements, Referendums, and the use of Simulations in Political Science Education.
Matthew Goodwin is Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. He has run numerous research projects for the Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust and British Academy and is most recently the co-author of Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain (with Robert Ford, 2014).
Vlastimil Havlík is a research fellow at the International Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (FSS MU) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, FSS MU. His teaching and research activities include populism, party politics in the Czech Republic and Europeanisation. He is also the managing editor of the Czech Journal of Political Science.
Ann-Cathrine Jungar is a senior lecturer at Södertörn University in Stockholm. She holds a PhD from Uppsala University, has worked as a research leader and director of Studies at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies.
Anders Ravik Jupskås is a research fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. He is currently finishing his PhD on populist persistence, which is part of a larger research project on party change in Norway funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
Kurt Richard Luther is Professor of Comparative Politics at Keele University, UK and at Tongji University, Shanghai. He chairs the ECPR Standing Group on Political Parties. His current research includes party organisation and strategy and party-interest group links. He also continues to specialise on Austria and holds the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Arts.
Duncan McDonnell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, Brisbane. He was previously a Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He is the co-author (with Daniele Albertazzi) of Populists in Power (Routledge, 2015) and the co-editor of Twenty-First Century Populism (Palgrave, 2008).
Eoin O'Malley is senior lecturer in politics at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. He has published over thirty journal articles mainly on questions relating to Irish politics, parties and prime ministers. He is author of Contemporary Ireland (Palgrave 2011) and co-editor of Governing Ireland (IPA 2012).
Teun Pauwels works at the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training and is scientific collaborator at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His research focuses on populism, ideologies and voting behaviour. He is the author of Populism in Western Europe, comparing Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands (Routledge, 2014).
Matthijs Rooduijn is postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) and lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He studies populism, radicalism and voting behaviour in Western Europe.
Ben Stanley is Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex, and Lecturer at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw. His main research interests are the theory and practice of populism, the comparative analysis of voting behaviour, the comparative analysis of party-system and cleavage formation, and the political entrepreneurialism of elites in new democracies. He has published articles in the Journal of Political Ideologies, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, and Party Politics, as well as contributing a number of chapters in
edited volumes.
Peter Ucen works as the Senior Programme Officer with the Europe Programme of the International Republican Institute (IRI). He has been working in the field of democracy assistance since 1999, focusing on enhancing capacities of political parties, party foundations and training institutes. In his research he specialises in populism, anti-establishment politics and new political parties in Slovakia and East Central Europe.
Stijn van Kessel is lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He completed his doctoral research at the University of Sussex in 2011 and is the author of the monograph Populist Parties in Europe: Agents of Discontent? (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015). He has published in edited books and journals, including Government and Opposition, Acta Politica and Journal of Political Ideologies.
Edward Weber is a PhD Student at the University of Zurich. Since 2013 he has worked for the Swiss national research programme on ‘Populism in the context of globalisation and mediatisation’.
Tuukka Ylä-Anttila is a doctoral researcher with the Helsinki Research Group for Political Sociology at the University of Helsinki. His work focuses on the relationship of populist argumentation and political cultures.
Tuomas Ylä-Anttila is the co-founder and co-director of the Helsinki Research Group for Political Sociology at the University of Helsinki. He has published on globalisation, politics of climate change, social movements and populism.
