Популизмът няма политическа родина
Populism Has No Home Country

Summary/Abstract: There is a poem by the famous Austrian poet Ernst Jandl that can be used as a summary of all populist political appeals. The poem is called ‘Answers to Seven Unasked Questions’ and goes like this: ‘No / No / No / No / No / No / No’. My (not particularly original) thesis is that populist parties are, above all, parties of negation and that the moment they enter government they lose much of their energy and persuasiveness. I will try to illustrate this with somewhat unsystematic observations on the common aspects of populist parties and their development after they enter government. I will also offer a few remarks on populism in Germany, where I live.

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