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The Global Economics of European Populism

Growth Regimes and Party System Change in Europe (The Government and Opposition /Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2017)

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ID7786291
AuthorsJonathan Hopkins (0000-0002-3187-4013, London School of Economics and Political Science), Jonathan Hopkin, Mark Blyth (0000-0001-7782-6183, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Year2019
Volume54
Issue2
Pages193-225
Publication date2019-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGovernment and Opposition (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/gov.2018.43
OpenAlexW2902401291
LanguageEN
Citations received63
References cited64

The expanding literature on growth regimes has recently been applied to explain the growth of populist movements across the OECD. Such applications posit a stand-off between debtors and creditors as the core conflict that generates populism. While insightful, the theory has problems explaining why, in some European countries, such movements pre-date both the global financial crisis and the austerity measures that followed, factors that are commonly seen as causing the rise of populism. This article takes a different tack. It derives shifts in both political parties and party systems from the growth regime framework. In doing so it seeks to explain the evolution of the cartel form of party that dominated the political systems of Europe from the late 1990s through to the current period and why that form proved unable to respond meaningfully to both the financial crisis and the political crisis that followed it

Austerity · Cartel · Creditor · Economic system · Economics · Financial crisis · Keynesian economics · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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