Discourse, Hegemony, and Populism in the Visegrád Four

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-01535-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 669 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy

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.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of populism, party politics, and Central and Eastern Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kim, Seongcheol

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Discourse, Hegemony, Populism, and the Visegrád Four 1. Discourse – Hegemony – Populism: A Conceptual Horizon 2. Discourse – Hegemony – Populism: A Framework for Analysis 3. Populism in the Czech Republic 4. Populism in Hungary 5. Populism in Poland 6. Populism in Slovakia 7. Conclusions: Discourse, Hegemony, and Populism after ’89

Über Autor(innen)

Seongcheol Kim is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany.