Populist Memory Politics and the Performance of Victimhood: Analysing the Political Exploitation of Historical Injustice in Central Europe
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DOI: 10.1017/gov.2023.10
Abstract: Right-wing populists often mobilize popular support by employing a people-versus-elite dichotomy in which they cast ‘the people’ as the underdog, or by ‘performing’ crisis to discredit the elite. Such ‘underdogism’, and the reliance on crisis… read more here.
Keywords: memory; performance victimhood; central europe; memory politics ... See more keywords