Varieties of Dependency, Varieties of Populism: Neoliberalism and the Populist Countermovements in the Visegrád Four

The rise of populism has cast doubt on the sustainability of the marriage of liberal democracy and neoliberal capitalism. There is an urgent need to understand how neoliberal developmental bottlenecks foster populist social coalitions. This essay analyses how the combination of dependent development...

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Published inEurope-Asia studies Vol. 73; no. 9; pp. 1569 - 1595
Main Author Scheiring, Gábor
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 21.10.2021
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Capitalism
Countermovements
Dependency
Governance
Liberal democracy
Marriage
Neoliberalism
Populism
Socioeconomic factors
Welfare
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Summary:The rise of populism has cast doubt on the sustainability of the marriage of liberal democracy and neoliberal capitalism. There is an urgent need to understand how neoliberal developmental bottlenecks foster populist social coalitions. This essay analyses how the combination of dependent development and various structures of dependency governance have contributed to different levels of socio-economic disintegration, engendering different populist countermovements in Central and Eastern Europe. These processes fostered exclusionary neoliberal populism with strong illiberalism in Hungary, welfare chauvinist populism with weak illiberalism in Poland, technocratic neoliberal populism without illiberalism in the Czech Republic and entrenched neoliberal populism with contained illiberalism in Slovakia.
ISSN:0966-8136
1465-3427
DOI:10.1080/09668136.2021.1973376