Abstract
The murder of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002 shocked the nation. Fortuyn had challenged the political order by winning the local elections in Rotterdam. He was poised to win the national elections, which were to be held just weeks after his death. Fortuyn sought to represent the ‘forgotten men and women’. The reaction to his assassination was ferocious: the parliament was nearly stormed and the legitimacy of the incumbent order rapidly declined. This chapter analyses the effort of national politicians to manage this legitimacy crisis.
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Boin, A., Kuipers, S., de Jongh, T. (2019). A Political Assassination and a Crisis of Legitimacy: The Murder of Pim Fortuyn. In: Lægreid, P., Rykkja, L.H. (eds) Societal Security and Crisis Management. New Security Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92303-1_13
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