Populist parties and the failure of the political elites: the rise of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ)
2016 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The author analyses the reasons behind the electoral success of European right-wing populist parties. Using the Austrian Freedom Party under Jörg Haider as a case study and with a richness of primary material, he argues that their success is only partly caused by "racism". It is also, and more prominently, the result of populism – i.e. a critique of the "elite". These parties and their voters should not, then, be labelled as arrogant insiders attacking downtrodden outsiders like immigrants, workers, and minorities. Instead, the right-wingers are more justly portrayed as outsiders and underdogs, raising their anger and frustration against the insiders: the "media elite" and the "leftists and the artists".
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016. , p. 263
National Category
Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)
Research subject
SOCIAL SCIENCE, Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE, Political science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-14640DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-05733-1ISBN: 978-3-631-66158-1 (print)ISBN: 978-3-653-05733-1 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-14640DiVA, id: diva2:1365901
2019-10-252019-10-252020-01-07Bibliographically approved