The empirical analysis of developments in the Front National’s socio-economic programme since the 1980s shows that the party has gradually moved away from its original neoliberal preferences to adopt a redistributive, protectionist and interventionist agenda, the centre of gravity of which is now to...

The “Le Pen phenomenon” designates the sum constituted by the elaboration of a politicalbrand located at the far-right and by the conflictual reactions that it provokes within theFrench society. The objectivization of this phenomenon lies in the analysis of the FrontNational ideology as it is this o...

The “Le Pen phenomenon” designates the sum constituted by the elaboration of a politicalbrand located at the far-right and by the conflictual reactions that it provokes within theFrench society. The objectivization of this phenomenon lies in the analysis of the FrontNational ideology as it is this o...

International audience The special issue analyzed the impact of populism on foreign policy in a range of European cases. By developing a common analytical framework and applying it across several case studies and policy areas, the special issue makes a contribution to nascent efforts at theorizing t...

the University of Liège organises the Left-wing populism colloquium. History, theory, practice "on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 October 2021. The event will host 50 academics from 5 disciplines (political science, history, sociology, philosophy, anthropology), 15 countries and 4 continents.

"and if my country was peaceful and prosperous, it was because my people, perhaps smarter than others on the continent, had re-elected me three, four — how many times? — although the sustainability of power was a guarantee of material well-being and political balance. “Alejo Carpentier, The Use of M...

Paru il y a deux mois aux éditions « Sintesis » dans une collection idéale pour les étudiants étonnante de clarté et effectivement très synthétique comme son nom l’indique, La tentación populista. Una vía al poder en América latina aborde la question plus que jamais d’actualité mais délicate car sou...

The refusal to position itself on the right-left axis characterises the movement of Yellow Gilets constantly back-to-back to political formations rather than taking one of them. However, when they appear in France, the Gilets jaunes express themselves in a public space that is already fuelled by pre...

It is argued that the Europe of the last quarter of the 20th century saw a shift in social control of violence due to the rise of the European Union and the expansion of the crime-winning crime. European states are overwhelmed by the growth in violence that makes use of new technologies and is entre...

The abundant literature that analyses populist abuses around the world is curiously leaving Israel behind, yet they are evident. On several occasions over the last twelve years, this democracy has been on the brink of the battle.Setting the trajectory of the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ from...

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The reaffirmation of national sovereignty by certain authoritarian regimes or in the United States is accompanied by state disintegration, particularly in the Arab world. The international scene is, more than ever, on the move. It has, of course, always been so, but today it is more difficult to dec...

After an overflight of the history of Quebec Metalect and historical currents that make up the definitions of Quebec identity, this memory looks at how identity movements represent their identity in relation to the history of their nation. It is based on an analysis of Facebook social network identi...

This work is primarily aimed at verifying whether the Bolivarian Revolution contains theoretical elements of what academics in political science call populism, and more recently neo-populism. In this regard, a methodology was used through descriptive research using primary sources, authors such as W...

our democracies suffer from new diseases. Like those contracted in hospital, they come from the inside, from the democratic game itself. Populism is thus a desettlement of some of our political systems that are not able to respond to globalisation. Not all of them die, but they are all affected. In...

PhD course - Roskilde University, Denmark28 - 30 October 2020 The focus of this Ph.D. course is set on how we can analyse and understand how actors live with, shape, and sometimes question and fight modern forms of power and government. Current challenges in welfare societies, such as developments o...

Nowadays there is an overuse of criminal law as a state mechanism to confront social conflicts of diverse nature. Changes on legislation are being made without taking into account its necessity and efficacy and such reforms mean to satisfy particular interests and not to resolve social conflicts. Po...

The President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, did not wait for the health crisis to fall into the mask and unveil his reshareholder plan. Both in his style and in his political practices, he has the main characteristics of a neopopulist leader: disruptive rhetoric against an es...

1. The term racism refers, in a broad sense, to a concept for which there are distinct human races, one of which — the one to which it belongs — is greater than the others. Such superiority may be justified on biological, historical or cultural grounds which may lead to discriminatory attitudes. In...

This article challenges the hypothesis taken by many populism researchers about the alleged direct link between the charismatic leader and the masses. Most peronism studies have almost completely evaded the mediating role of personalities from various social and political sectors, each contributing...

today, the new populist rights in Italy and Europe — the League, Rassemblement National, Alternative for Germany — are more or less explicitly linked to Mussolini’s fascism policies and values. They are accompanied by openly “neofascist” groups. But populism is not fascism. However, the former finds...

: December 16, 2009, a few weeks prior to the primaries that would agree on the official contestant of the Democratic and Republican parties in the U.S., a group of people in Boston dressed in a way inspired by the American Revolution era. The flags they held symbolized a black rattlesnake on a yell...

Globalisation, enemy or ally of populists? A comparison of anti-system parties in the United States and Germany: Donald Trump and Alternative für Deutschland Globalisation, an enemy or an ally for the populist parties? A comparison of anti-system party in the USA and in Germany: Donald Trump and Alt...