Populism, Democracy, and Party System Change in Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7635330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milada Anna Vachudova (0000-0001-8587-5081, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 471-498 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-041719-102711 |
| OpenAlex | W3135593016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 78 |
| References cited | 114 |
How has populism transformed party systems in Europe? I survey the varieties of populism, the sources of their support and the different ways that they appeal to voters. I use data from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey to explore whether populist parties are intensifying competition on the cultural dimension, accelerating the decline of mainstream parties, and increasing polarization. I argue that while left and center populist parties have upended existing structures of competition, it is longstanding conservative parties, remodeled using ethnopopulism, that have been the most consequential for the substance of political competition and the trajectory of domestic politics. I consider the behavior of incumbents and argue that varieties of populism should shape our expectations of what happens when populists rule: While left populist parties in power over the last decade have tended to become more ordinary, sometimes even shedding antiestablishment and anti-EU positions, ethnopopulist parties in power have used harsh “us-versus-them” appeals, misinformation, and democratic backsliding in their pursuit of more power
Appeal · Competition (biology · Democracy · Mainstream · Polarization (electrochemistry · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Power (physics · Sociology · Survey data collection · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
Global politics and Turkey’s democratic backsliding
“Am I My Fellow Citizens’ Keeper?” Distrust, Democratic Backsliding, and Conspiracy Theories
Direct Democracy, Indirect Democracy, and Beyond
Turning off Populism? Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management on Political Information Avoidance
Who Is the EU for? Race, Europe, and the Global Order
Persecuted and Paralysed
Sources of (Dis-)Identification with Europe
Pathways to hybridity
Preaching to the non-practising
Transforming the centre right in Germany and the United Kingdom
The beliefs of young parliamentary candidates on democracy and the moderation role of populism
Predictors of illiberalism in Romania
What is Parliamentarism to Populists? The Populist Redefinition of the Concept of Parliamentarism in Parliamentary Debates in Post-Milošević Serbia
Character, Gender, and Populism
Emotion Narratives on the Political Culture of Radical Right Populist Parties in Portugal and Italy
Weaponizing Culture
Framing the Judiciary
Ukraine is Europe
The winner takes all the trust
European Outliers? Rethinking Europeanisation and Euroscepticism in Britain and Denmark
From Duterte to Orbán
Bridging the gap
Populism and democratic attitudes
Are there populist parties in Brazil? An analysis of Election manifestos (2010-2022)
Varieties of Illiberal Backlash in Central Europe
Abortion Rights Attitudes in Europe
The parliamentary politics of the rule of law crisis in the EU
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream
From collaboration to convergence
Housing and electoral behaviour
Turning to the radical right
The challenge populist governments pose for the process and theory of European integration
Populism and Surrogacy in Spain
Postfunctionalism across the Atlantic
How Polarization Shapes Violence Against Candidates
Seven Decades of Gender Differences in German Voting Behavior
How ideology shapes the relationship between populist attitudes and support for liberal democratic values. Evidence from Spain
The wrong remedy for the right diagnosis. The republican case against compulsory voting
Limits of far-right mobilization in Poland
Strange bedfellows? Exploring the left-authoritarian attraction to the populist radical right in Poland
After the Takeover
How party polarisation exacerbates the link between democratic deficit and populist voting
Toxic friend? The impact of the Russian invasion on democratic backsliding and PRR cooperation in Europe
The policy profile of populist parties in Europe
What drives support for authoritarian populist parties in Eastern and Central Europe
The Russian threat and the consolidation of the West
What unites the right in the European Parliament
The 2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey on political party positioning in Europe
Eurosceptic narratives in the age of Covid-19
Neo-Progressivism and Urban Politics in the Ongoing Interregnum
Theories of Democratic Backsliding
A moral or class divide for populist parties? ‘The people’ in the discourse of Podemos and Vox in Spain
Not just about the ruling
From agents of the people to agents of authority? How illiberal populism impacts interactions between regulatory agencies and external stakeholders
Will the Real Conspiracy Please Stand Up
The Emergence of Right-Wing Partisanship in Poland, 1993–2018
Stateness and democratic backsliding in the former Yugoslavia
No coalition is an island
Policy issue salience and legislative output of populist governments
Member states’ differential support for rule of law enforcement in the council of the EU
The “far right” label and the study of party systems
Government and Opposition on the Road to EU Accession
Citizen support for democracy, anti‐pluralist parties in power and democratic backsliding
Let's talk populist? A survey experiment on effects of (non‐) populist discourse on vote choice
Party System Change and Challenges to Democracy in Slovenia
Partisanship and plane crashes
The perfect storm
Intentional polarization
Mechanisms of democratic authoritarianism
Territorial Loss and Nationalist Populism
Party Positioning Under Populist State Leaders
The Political Twittersphere as a Breeding Ground for Populist Ideas
Populism, Anti-establishment Politics, and Dimensions of Political Competition
Unconditional Support for Trump’s Resistance Prior to Election Day
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999-2019
The decline of political leader popularity
The Effect of Protesters' Gender on Public Reactions to Protests and Protest Repression
Antidote to Backsliding
Party systems and voter alignments
Popular Dissatisfaction with Democracy
Europe Undivided
Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe
Post-Communist Mafia State
The Transformation of European Social Democracy
Political Entrepreneurs
The Global Rise of Populism
From Triumph to Crisis
Party Competition between Unequals
The Populist Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe
Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society
Political Conflict in Western Europe
Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration
Poland's Constitutional Breakdown
A Theory of the Politics of Memory
Movement Parties Against Austerity
Cultural Backlash
European Party Politics in Times of Crisis
Varieties of Capitalism
The Hollowing and Backsliding of Democracy in East Central Europe
West European Politics in the Age of Globalization
State-sponsored Populism and the Rise of Populist Governance
Communism's Shadow
The Radical Right in Western Europe
Backsliding
The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust
Inside the Radical Right
Ultra‐orthodoxy and selective voluntarism
When Populist Leaders Govern
Best in Covid
On the Distinct Effects of Left-Wing and Right-Wing Populism on Democratic Quality
Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data
Entering the ‘post-shame era’
Is Nationalism or Ethnopopulism on the Rise Today
A new party system in the making? The 2017 French presidential election
Postcommunist politics in a magnetic field
Explaining Orbán
Technocratic Populism and Political Illiberalism in Central Europe
Populist Polarization and Party System Institutionalization
Financial nationalism and its international enablers
The decline of the working-class vote, the reconfiguration of the welfare support coalition and consequences for the welfare state
The Salience of European Integration to Party Competition
The State as a Firm
United in opposition? The populist radical right’s EU-pessimism in times of crisis
Populism, Nationalism, and Party Politics
Ambitious Reform Via Constituent Assemblies
Absorbing the blow
Exclusionary vs. Inclusionary Populism
The Changing Cleavage Politics of Western Europe
Measuring party positions in Europe
Left-wing populism in the European periphery
Populism, Partisan Convergence, and Mobilization in Western Europe
From Competition to Polarization in Central Europe
Populism is a Symptom Rather than a Cause
The EU’s Enfants Terribles
Economy, corruption or floating voters? Explaining the breakthroughs of anti-establishment reform parties in eastern Europe
Explaining Workers' Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe
Cleavage theory meets Europe’s crises
The European Union's authoritarian equilibrium
The Failure of Europe's Mainstream Parties
Liberal Intergovernmentalism, Illiberalism and the Potential Superpower of the European Union
How the European debt crisis reshaped national political space
Party decline or social transformation? Economic, institutional and sociological change and the rise of anti-political-establishment parties in Western Europe
Party convergence and vote switching
Still blurry? Economic salience, position and voting for radical right parties in Western Europe
Between nationalism and civilizationism
Right-wing authoritarian innovations in Central and Eastern Europe
The uncertain road to sustainable democracy
Ethnopopulism and democratic backsliding in Central Europe
Identity Politics and Populism in Europe
European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession
Democracy and Prosperity
Throwing out the Bums
How Populists Rule
Bipolar Disorders
Trust the People! Populism and the Two Faces of Democracy
A New Winning Formula
Riker and Rokkan
The thin ideology of populism
The Brexit vote
Tempered by the EU? Political parties and party systems before and after accession
Multidimensional incongruence, political disaffection, and support for anti-establishment parties
On Democratic Backsliding
Populism and Protest in Poland
Polarization versus Democracy
Varieties of Inclusionary Populism? Syriza, Podemos and the Five Star Movement
The Rule of Law and the Frankenstate
When dimensions collide
Who emphasizes and who blurs? Party strategies in multidimensional competition
Hurricane or fresh breeze? Disentangling the populist effect on the quality of democracy
What unites the voter bases of populist parties? Comparing the electorates of 15 populist parties
Understanding the illiberal turn
Ethnopopulist denial and crime relativisation in Bosnian Republika Srpska
Fighting corruption” or “fighting the corrupt elite”? Politicizing corruption within and beyond the populist divide
Measuring Populism in Political Parties
Unwelcome Change
Political Theory of Populism
Value Shift
Economic Inequality, Immigrants and Selective Solidarity
| Unique citing works | 78 |
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| Citations per year | 15,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 78 |