The Populism-Euroscepticism Nexus

ISBN-13: 9781032466682 / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Juan Roch

Opis

This book explores the modes of European Union (EU) contestation which are mobilized by populist parties and seeks to unearth the relationship of such contestation with populist discourses.

Recenzje

"This book　breaks new ground in its exploration of the development of Euroskepticism through populist discursive and social practices.　 By combining the post-structuralist approaches of Foucault’s　dispositifs　with the Critical Discourse Analysis of Laclau and Moufe,　the book creates a highly innovative theoretical template through which to study populism in Europe. 　The result is a deeply insightful analysis of the power of populist contestation of European integration through a qualitative analysis of the cases of the AfD in Germany and　Podemos　in Spain."

Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University

"The Populism-Euroscepticism Nexus offers a refreshing discursive perspective on how Alternative für Deutschland and Podemos have articulated their populism with contestation of the EU. This theoretically, methodologically and analytically sophisticated book will be of interest to anyone interested in how left and right populist discourses about the EU are embedded in historical processes of Europeanisation."

Benjamin De Cleen, Associate professor at the Department of Communication Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

"Juan Roch’s book offers important critical insights into the relationship between populism and EU contestation, and also demonstrates the complexity of party positions on ‘Europe’ more generally. While populism and Euroscepticism are often assumed to go hand-in-hand, radical populist actors often take an ambivalent stance towards the issue of European integration, and criticism of the EU is hardly the prerogative of populists alone. Based on a carefully-crafted conceptual and theoretical framework, and a systematic comparative case-study analysis, Roch’s study helps us to gain a better understanding and appreciation of the multiplicity of Eurosceptic discourses, which are shown to be strongly shaped by historical and national context."

Stijn van Kessel – Reader in European Politics, Queen Mary University of London

Spis treści

Introduction: Populism and EU contestation

1. The study of Populism and EU contestation

2. A discursive approach to the populism-Euroscepticism nexus

3. Europeanization in Spain

4. Podemos: The Populist Rise in Spain

5. Europeanization in Germany

6. The Emergence of the Radical Right in Germany

7. Comparison and Conclusions

O autorze

Juan Roch is a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin, and he has been visiting researcher at University of Berkeley, California and at the European University Institute in Florence. His research stands at the intersection between European politics, nationalism, sovereignism, and populism studies, analyzing the discourses of prominent political actors as well as their legitimation strategies. He has published articles in international journals such as The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Political Studies, Nations & Nationalism, or Politics. Juan Roch has previously studied solidarity attitudes in the context of migration at Universität Hildesheim and the rise of new social movements at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.