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dc.contributor.authorPAXTON, Fred
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-16T10:40:30Z
dc.date.available2019-12-16T10:40:30Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationRepresentation, 2020, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 411-430en
dc.identifier.issn0034-4893
dc.identifier.issn1749-4001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/65547
dc.descriptionFirst published online: 2 August 2019en
dc.description.abstractA crisis of representation has precipitated a surge in support for populist radical right (PRR) parties that challenge the existing model of representative democracy. Simultaneously, institutional reforms across Western Europe have sought to improve the input-legitimacy of local democracy with a proliferation of direct and participatory democratic methods. This paper investigates the extent to which PRR parties advance a populist democratic agenda when in leadership of the executive at the local level of government. Previous work on the subject of PRR parties in power has neglected the sub-national perspective, despite the increasing congruence between populist demands for a more direct linkage of politics to the people and this institutional environment. An exploration of three cases of PRR party-led local government in Italy, Austria and Switzerland enables a comparison of their governing behaviour, its ideological content and democratic consequences, through qualitative content analysis of referendums, policies and council resolutions. This paper finds they do little to promote popular sovereignty through participatory forms of governance at the expense of representative democracy in local government. However, when in local government environments with higher executive autonomy, PRR parties emphasise a more direct (plebiscitarian) linkage between the executive and the ‘people’, who are increasingly represented in nativist terms.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofRepresentationen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.titleTowards a populist local democracy? : the consequences of populist radical right local government leadership in Western Europeen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00344893.2019.1643771
dc.identifier.volume56
dc.identifier.startpage411
dc.identifier.endpage430
dc.identifier.issue3


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