Populism as a Political Logic: The Case of the European Parliament Elections 2019 Cover Image

Populizam kao politička logika: slučaj izbora za Evropski parlament 2019.
Populism as a Political Logic: The Case of the European Parliament Elections 2019

Author(s): Slađan Rankić
Subject(s): Electoral systems, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: Populism; euro-populism; national-populism; affective investment; chain of equivalence;

Summary/Abstract: The American presidential elections and the Brexit referendum have popularized the term populism in the public. This paper seeks to use populism as a neutral operational category, as a political logic, which is open to use by various actors from different ideological positions. In the case of the European elections, using discourse analysis, this work claims that representatives from all parties use populism, albeit of differing content. These populisms are named here as: left, national and euro-populism. This paper concludes that the opening of the political space for all three versions is necessary and that they are not ephemeral phenomena

  • Issue Year: 13/2019
  • Issue No: Spec.
  • Page Range: 111-128
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian
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