
- 320 pages
- English
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Discourse, Hegemony, and Populism in the Visegrád Four
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index