Practising Populism: How Right‐wing Populists Negotiate Political Competence
Journal: JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
Year: 2019

Abstract This article introduces a new way to consider right‐wing populism in Western Europe through practice theory. While historically, right‐wing populist parties have not been seen as one homogenous movement, their populist practices constitute a transnational challenge to the European political establishment. Building on practice theory, we contribute to the question of how these parties negotiate political competence through transnational practices on three levels: claiming competence by e