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Nationalist Populism: New Political Parties in Europe. Their Ideas, Governments and Support for a Less-Integrated Europe

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The rise of nationalist populism during the last two European parliamentary elections calls for a rigorous analysis of these new political forces. From Euro-scepticism to Euro-phobia, they criticise a large portion of the underpinnings and policies fostered by the EU.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Mudde and Kaltwasser (2013).

  2. 2.

    Rodríguez-Aguilera de Prat (2012), p. 138.

  3. 3.

    Çakir (2016), pp. 149–162.

  4. 4.

    Speit (2016).

  5. 5.

    Camus and Lebourg (2016), p. 234.

  6. 6.

    Troitino and Faerber (2019).

  7. 7.

    Poirer (2007), pp. 57–58.

  8. 8.

    Bebnowski (2015).

  9. 9.

    Ramiro and Pando (2017).

  10. 10.

    Goodwin and Milazzo (2015).

  11. 11.

    Martín de la Guardia (2018), p. 181.

  12. 12.

    Hamulák (2018).

  13. 13.

    Arter (2010), pp. 484–504.

  14. 14.

    Van Spanje (2006), pp. 563–586.

  15. 15.

    Krekó and Mayer (2015), p. 195.

  16. 16.

    Wodak (2015), p. 74.

  17. 17.

    Kerikmäe et al. (2019).

  18. 18.

    Martín de la Guardia and Pérez Sánchez (2019), p. 207.

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de la Guardia, R.M. (2020). Nationalist Populism: New Political Parties in Europe. Their Ideas, Governments and Support for a Less-Integrated Europe. In: Ramiro Troitiño, D., Kerikmäe, T., de la Guardia, R., Pérez Sánchez, G. (eds) The EU in the 21st Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38399-2_3

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