Discourse Hegemony and Populism in the Visegrád Four

<p>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 transformative events of 1989–91 in Central and Eastern Europe.</p><p>Advancing a post-foundational approach to populism based on a semi-formal reading of Ernesto Laclau's theory the book undertakes a detailed examination of how the 'people' has been constructed in populist discourses in the party systems of the four countries since 1989. Drawing on a wealth of source material the book offers both a wide-ranging and in-depth overview and classification of populism in the V4 in terms of discursive (e.g. centrist conservative left-wing liberal nationalist social) and hegemonic type (e.g. authoritarian hegemonic generational counter-hegemonic) alike.</p><p>This book will be of interest to students and scholars of populism party politics and Central and Eastern Europe.</p>