Mapping Political Populism in the European Post-Transitional Periphery
Journal: Journal of Political Science Bulletin of Yerevan University
Year: 2022

This article comparatively analyzes the manifestations and various factors of political populism in the European post-transitional periphery. The main difficulty in mapping political populism in the European post-transitional periphery and defining populist parties most accurately is that, unlike most political forces in developed democracies, such parties do not belong to traditional parties. Moreover, their ideology combines the positions of both right and left parties, which makes it extremel