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This edited book provides a first overview of how populist parties
responded to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in Europe. Although
populism would normally benefit from crisis situations (e.g.,
political representation or economic crises), the peculiar nature
of this health crisis does not make the benefit obvious. For it to
be exploited, a crisis must be politicized. While populists have
tried to take advantage of the crisis situation, the impossibility
of taking ownership of the COVID-19 issue has made the crisis hard
to be exploited. In particular, populists in power have tried to
depoliticize the pandemic, whereas radical right-populists in
opposition tried to politicize the crisis, though failing to gain
the relevant public support. This book considers populist parties
in eight European democracies, providing a framework of analysis
for their responses to the COVID-19 crisis. It does so by engaging
with the literature on crisis and populism from a theoretical
perspective and through the lens of the politicization process.
This book presents the main findings of a comparative qualitative
survey conducted in France, Germany, Italy, and Poland. Ordinary
citizens from very different social backgrounds and professions
were asked a range of open-ended questions, allowing them to
express themselves freely. There have been few qualitative surveys
on ordinary citizens' views of European integration, and none on
this scale. The resulting picture is very different from the
self-evident assumptions of many current studies on European
opinions. Contributions to the volume stress the great diversity,
ambiguity, and complexity of European attitudes. They emphasise the
causal impact of formal education, political interest and
involvement, individual everyday exposures to `European' realities,
and the role of collective national experiences of European
integration and national history.
After five decades, "Europe" as a political entity has become
increasingly visible to ordinary citizens and an object of
political debates. Much of what is known about citizens' attitudes
towards Europe is limited to quantitative surveys largely centered
on identifying who is for or against the EU. The proposed volume
seeks to present a more complete and nuanced picture based on over
600 qualitative interviews conducted in France, Germany, Poland and
Italy between 2006 and 2009. The volume seeks to specify the full
range of attitudes, the cognitive bases used to formulate opinions,
the degree of consistency and conviction of attitudes and the
pertinence of sociological and contextual factors explaining
observable variations in these attitudes. The results question many
of the sweeping generalisations and assumptions about the
structuring of public perceptions of "Europe." The edited volume
will be composed of 12 chapters, all based on intensive fieldwork.
The first chapters will discuss the theoretical and methodological
underpinnings and the following chapters will focus on a particular
type of attitude, social group, or recurrent themes structuring
perceptions. The book is targeted to students and scholars in
sociology, political science and European studies, as well as
European professionals.
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