Theorizing the New Populism in Eastern Europe : A Look at Bulgaria

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.politologickycasopis.cz/cz/archiv/2016/2/" target="_blank" >http://www.politologickycasopis.cz/cz/archiv/2016/2/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2016-2-182" target="_blank" >10.5817/PC2016-2-182</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Theorizing the New Populism in Eastern Europe : A Look at Bulgaria

Original language description

This article offers a new theoretical approach to populism that allows for a better understanding of the rise of populism in Eastern Europe and its appearance from across the political spectrum. It argues that populism is a political strategy utiliyed by personalist parties to reduce the transaction costs of politics by increasing the use of informal political institutions, which have an association with direct and immediate action, and decreasing the use of formal political institutions, which have connotations of slow or non-action. This approach allows for better understanding of voter behavior and voter support for populist parties and introduces a dynamics-based component which helps understand the rise and evolution of populist parties and changes in their voter support, further linking them to changes in the political and economic context. Moreover, highlighting the strategic aspect of populist political behavior, this approach allows for examining the effects of populism on institutions (the transaction cost framework constituting the core of institutional economics), business, and the functioning of democracy. The Bulgarian case is used to illustrate and substantiate this theoretical proposition and to stipulate the effect of populist movements and parties on democracy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Politologický časopis

ISSN

1211-3247

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

182-199

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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