The parliamentary elections of 2017 in Germany and Austria as well as the general elections in Italy 2018 have deeply changed the party and government system. The German party Alternative for Germany has been prominently elected into the government, the Austrian Freedom Party forms part of the government together with the Austrian People's Party, Italy has its first government of populists with the 5 Stars Movement and the Northern League.
Those who seek to understand how these transformations came about in just a short period of time, will find some illuminating answers in this book. Analysis, developments, assessments and trends by renowned historians and political scientists prove that populism in these three countries has a history on which it can successfully build. This includes the crisis of historical parties which have continuously lost their political cohesiveness and trustworthiness.
Overview
Günther Pallaver, Michael Gehler and Maurizio Cau Introduction
I. Historical Perspectives and Transformation Process
Michael Gehler Different Paths toward Europe? Germany, Italy, and Austria 1945–2009
Karin Priester Right-wing Populism in Europe
Koen Abts and Rudi Laermans Populism: Definitions, Questions, Problems, and Theories
Maurizio Cau Populism vs Constitutionalism. The Theoretical Core of Populist Ideology and the Foundations of the Democratic System
Günther Pallaver Populism in the Mainstream Media. Germany, Austria, and Italy in Comparison
II. Political Actors Shaping the Populist Challenge
Reinhold Gärtner Jörg Haider and His Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs
Marco Brunazzo The Northern League: Bossi, Salvini, and the Many Faces of Populism
Giovanni Orsina Berlusconi as a Circumstantial Populist
Lutz Klinkhammer Gianfranco Fini. From Neofascist »Dauphin« to anti-Fascist »Traitor«
Frank Decker »Alternative für Deutschland«. The Belated Arrival of Rightwing Populism in the Federal Republic
Manfred Görtemaker Angela Merkel and Romano Prodi: Antithesis of Populism?
III. European Political Parties, Their Response to the Populist Challenge, and Their Treatment of Populism
Steven van Hecke and Alex Andrione-Moylan Between Collaboration and Demarcation. The European People's Party and the Populist Wave
Giovanni Bernardini Social Democracy and the Challenge of Populism
Hans Heiss The Greens and Populism: A Contradiction in Terms?
Guido Thiemeyer European Liberal Parties and the Challenge of Populism
Anton Pelinka Populism. A Short Conclusion to the Volume
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