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The Potentials and Difficulties of Transnational Populism: The Case of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25).
- Source :
- Political Studies; Feb2020, Vol. 68 Issue 1, p146-166, 21p, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), launched by former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, seeks to construct a transnational left political project to 'democratise Europe'. Its construction of a European 'people' against an international elite raises questions about the potentials of populism beyond the nation-state. Building on a discourse-theoretical distinction between populism and nationalism, the article asks whether DiEM25 is a truly transnational populist movement. Through an analysis of the movement's manifestoes, speeches, press releases and published interviews with DiEM25 leaders, the article shows how DiEM25 constructs a 'European people' in opposition to an international 'elite', how DiEM25 oscillates between speaking for national 'peoples' and a transnational 'people', and how it negotiates its populism, nationalism and transnationalism. The article contributes to the theorisation of populism beyond the usually assumed nation-state level and shines a light on the potentials and limitations of transnational populism as an as-yet understudied political development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- POPULISM
DEMOCRACY
NATIONALISM
TRANSNATIONALISM
POLITICAL elites
POLITICAL movements
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00323217
- Volume :
- 68
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Political Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 141341149
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321719847576