New research group on populism, radical democracy and square protests
populism, radical democracy, protest, and political organisation. The discursive approach to populism based on Ernesto Laclau’s work offers fruitful avenues for this line of research because, for one thing [...] demands can become part of their agenda. Seongcheol : The financial crisis and especially the austerity-based management of the economic crisis within the Eurozone brought to the fore new forms of populism from [...] populist fashion, e.g. when Trump pitted the interests of “America” against a self-serving Washington-based political class in his inauguration speech, or when Johnson framed the early election in 2019 as a