Populist Parties and the Failure of the Political Elites: The Rise of the Austrian Freedom Party (Fpoe)

ISBN-13: 9783631661581 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 264 str.

Goran Adamson

Opis

The author analyses the reasons behind the electoral success of European right-wing populist parties. Using the Austrian Freedom Party under Jorg Haider as a case study and with a richness of primary material, he argues that their success is only partly caused by -racism-. It is also, and more prominently, the result of populism i.e. a critique of the -elite-. These parties and their voters should not, then, be labelled as arrogant insiders attacking downtrodden outsiders like immigrants, workers, and minorities. Instead, the right-wingers are more justly portrayed as outsiders and underdogs, raising their anger and frustration against the insiders: the -media elite- and the -leftists and the artists-."

Spis treści

Contents: The study of right-wing extremism - The importance of the party leader - Jörg Haider's writings - Two different forms of populism - Right wing populism - Racism - Anti-democratic ideas and fascism - Rhetoric and provocation - The EU sanctions against Austria - Public polls - How different are FPÖ voters? - Elitism.

O autorze

Göran Adamson is an Associate Professor in Sociology, with a PhD from the LSE, London. His research interests are contemporary right-wing populism, forms of nationalism, and multiculturalism.