Populist Parties in Europe

Agents of Discontent?

Event

This book panel, consisting of Prof. Sarah de Lange, Dr. Matthijs Rooduijn and Dr. Andrej Zaslove, focuses on the book Populist Parties in Europe by Dr. Stijn van Kessel.

The phenomenon of populism is typically seen as something adverse and, in the European context, routinely related to xenophobic politics. What populism exactly is and who its representatives across Europe are, however, often remains unclear. The book under investigation has two main aims: to identify populist parties in 21st-century Europe and to explain their electoral performance. 

About the panelists

Stijn van Kessel is lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University and currently carries out a two-year research project at the Institut für Deutsches und Internationales Parteienrecht und Parteienforschung (PRuF) at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. Stijn defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Sussex in 2011.

Sarah de Lange is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. She has previously been a Jean Monnet Fellow in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Research at the European University Institute and a visiting scholar at the Goethe University. She holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Matthijs Rooduijn work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) and as a lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, where he also holds his PhD. His research affiliates strongly with populist studies, which the title of his book A Populist Zeitgeist suggests.

Andrej Zaslove is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the department of Political Science at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. His latest book The Reinvention of the European Radical Righttouches upon relevant issues such as extremism and populism. 

Published by  ACCESS EUROPE