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Populism, historical discourse and foreign policy: the case of Poland’s Law and Justice government
2020 •
David Cadier
This article analyses how, in Poland, the populist political orientation of the ruling party (Law and Justice—PiS) has coloured the historical discourse of the government and has affected, in turn, its foreign policy and diplomatic relations. We argue that the historical discourse of the PiS government is a reflection of the party’s reliance on populism as a political mode of articulation in that it seeks to promote a Manichean, dichotomic and totalizing re-definition of the categories of victim, hero and perpetrator—and of Poland’s roles in this trinity. The article details the direct and indirect repercussions of PiS populist-inspired historical posture on Poland’s foreign policy by analysing its policies towards—and relations with—Ukraine and Germany. As such, the article sheds light on the under-explored links between populism and historical memory and makes a contribution to the nascent scholarship on the foreign policy of populist governments.
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Cultures of Populism and the Political Right In Central Europe
2003 •
Patricia Chiantera-Stutte, Andrea Peto
The Polish and Hungarian Blind Alley of Populism Compared
2018 •
Attila Ágh
The key messages of this paper can be summarized in three statements: First, the new wave of populism, as neopopulism, has been shaped in the current age of information society first of all in the terms of ‘cultural’ globalization as identity politics. Second, since the outbreak of global crisis in the late 2000s there has been an ‘alienation’ between the Core and the Periphery in the EU with very marked features in the ‘East’, in New Member States as widespread disappointment of populations with the results of EU membership. Third, Poland and Hungary have been pioneering in this process of divergence from the EU mainstream and in the emergence of the anti-EU populist elites, so they represent the classical case of Eupopulism in the Eastern periphery in the EU. Thus, this paper focuses on the specificity of neopopulism in NMS within the EU first of all by analysing the emergence of authoritarian populism in Poland and Hungary.
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A large-scale ethnography of populism in the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland
2022 •
SANTOS RIVERA CARDONA
Exploring Populism Through the Politics of Commemoration
2021 •
Johana Wyss
This essay investigates whether the way in which Czech citizens relate to the commemoration of the fall of the Iron Curtain can shed light on the strong support for the currently dominant political party ANO, often labelled by political scientists as 'centrist' or 'managerial' populist. Based on ethnographic research in Czech Silesia, analysis of contemporary political discourse and follow-up fieldwork during the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in November 2019, the essay provides a case study of increasing political polarisation as a new form of populism emerges.
Die neuen Wirren des Nationalismus - Zwischen Agonie und Auftrieb, hg. Georg Wenz, Klaus Kufeld
History as a Weapon: Representations of the Past in the Polish Public Debate
2017 •
Iza Mrzygłód, Łukasz Bertram
NATIONALIST POPULISM AND POST-COMMUNISM: CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSES OF POLAND AND SLOVAKIA
NATIONALIST POPULISM AND POST-COMMUNISM: CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSES OF POLAND AND SLOVAKIA
2022 •
Tomáš Strážay
The analysis of the political discourse in Poland and Slovakia shows that a significant part of the political elite in Poland and Slovakia is inclined to employ nationalist populism in their statements and party slogans, in order to address their voters and enlarge their volume of support. The advantage of nationalist populist appeals is based on the fact that they are easily usable for a number of purposes and reach a significant part of the population. Even though the main focus of such appeals is the nation, most of the political elite use them for the hom*ogenisation of their electorate, without paying much attention to the national interests of the society. Therefore, it can be concluded that, even three decades after the regime change, nationalism and nationalist populism represent important challenges for both Poland and Slovakia, as well as for other countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Populism and Contested Articulations of National and European Identities
2018 •
Marija Sniečkutė, Réka Deim
Populism is not only one of the contemporary trends in European societies but also an important space of articulating national identities, quite often in opposition to the European identities. Populist politicians claim a certain vision of national identities via political discourse and by the appropriation of memory sites and art. Nonetheless, discourse analysis and art practices also provide means to challenge populist imaginations. Therefore, the major purpose of this presentation is to suggest the usefulness of integrating argumentation and art theoretical insights for the purpose of a better understanding of and responding to the populist phenomenon. In this paper, populism is understood as a “thin-centered ideology” (C. Mudde) that considers society to be ultimately separated into two hom*ogeneous and antagonistic camps, “the pure people” versus “the corrupt elite,” and which argues that politics should be an expression of the general will of the people. The paper focuses on the discursive and non-discursive construction of the opposition between the people and “the other” in terms of values, which is elaborated in reference to the concept of the “heartland” (P. Taggart). The key points are exemplified by the Hungarian case, and, in particular, the analysis of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speeches, memory politics and cultural policy.
“Post-Communist Public History in Poland and Hungary: Issues of Identity and Memory Politics”, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 2018.
Kostas Korres
Presentation at Summer Academy for International Ph.D. Students entitled "Diversity beyond Nation/ State. The Danube Region after World War II" at Babeş-Bolyai University from 10.9.2018 to 15.09.2018 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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Andrea Peto, Patricia Chiantera-Stutte
