In this important and accessible study, Rafal Pankowski makes sense of the rapid growth of
organized radical nationalism on the political level in Poland by showing its origins, its …

This article addresses the sudden and somewhat unexpected rise of populist parties in
West, Central, and Eastern Europe. The first section highlights the core characteristics of …

The recent electoral performances of the Bulgarian Ataka, Hungarian Jobbik, and the Slovak
National Party seem to confirm the pervasive appeal of the populist radical right in Central …

Populism is a general protest against the checks and balances introduced to prevent 'the
people's' direct rule. The beginning of modern populism was a radical understanding of …

The 2015 victory of Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) party is an example of the rise of
contemporary authoritarian populism. The PiS's rise can be attributed to a cultural backlash …

Often neglected in the study of far right organisations, post-communist Europe recently
witnessed the rise and fall of a number of populist radical right parties. The Populist Radical …

This article shows how Poland's ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), is attempting to apply its
general strategy of “elite replacement” in a modified way to civil society. Since independent …

This is the first book-length account of populism in the Visegrád Four (V4) countries—Czech
Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia—for the first 30 years of multi-party competition …

Since the 1980s, a growing number of radical right‐wing populist parties have managed to
establish themselves permanently in the party systems of advanced liberal capitalist …

In the 1980s, the Populist Radical Right emerged as a new party family. Its members have a
number of core characteristics in common: they are nativist, authoritarian, and usually also …