Discourse, Hegemony, and Populism in the Visegrád Four 1st edition Seongcheol Kim by Seongcheol Kim 9781032015354, 1032015357 instant download after payment.

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.
Advancing a post-foundational approach to populism based on a semiformal 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 indepth 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 counterhegemonic) alike.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of populism, party politics, and Central and Eastern Europe.