Discourse, hegemony, and populism in the Visegrád Four

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"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. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of populism, party politics, and Central and Eastern Europe"-- … full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author

Seongcheol Kim

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

xviii, 316 stran ; 25 cm

Published

London ; and New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

Edition

First published

Series

Routledge studies in extremism and democracy

Subjects

populismus > země Visegrádské skupiny

politické strany > země Visegrádské skupiny

diskurzivní analýza

monografie

Bibliography

Obsahuje bibliografii, bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík

ISBN

978-1-032-01535-4