The Weakness of Populism in Spain

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats.134-1.14

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Populims, extreme right, radical right, Podemos, Ciudadanos, Vox

Abstract

This article analyzes the reasons why s in Spain, where many of the conditions associated with the emergence and growth of populism have occurred, a deep economic crisis that began in 2008 and a political crisis linked to the corruption scandals that affected the main parties of the system, this political current has not taken root. The traditional extreme right is very weak, the new parties like Podemos or Ciudadanos can not be considered populist and Vox that meets all the requirements to be considered a radical rightist party is different from this political family because of its absence of populism. It will be argued that this absence of populism is explained above all by the pre-eminence of left-right and national fractures, the traditional political fractures around which political competition is articulated in Spain

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Author Biography

Astrid Barrio, Universitat de València

Astrid Barrio es profesora de Ciencia Política en la Universitat de València. Es doctora en Ciencia Política por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona y DEA por el Institut d’Études Politiques de París (Sciences-Po). Su ámbito de investigación son los partidos, las elites políticas, los sistemas de partidos y el nacionalismo. Es autora de numerosos capítulos en distintos libros y ha publicado artículos en revistas como Ethnic and Racial Studies, Revista Española de Ciencia Política, Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Comparative European Politics, South European Society and Politics o Mediterranean Politics, entre otras. Escribe regularmente en diferentes medios como El Periódico o La Vanguardia y es analista habitual en TV3, Catalunya Ràdio, La Ser, RAC1 y RTVE. Asimismo, es fundadora de Agenda Política y de la revista Política & Prosa. Toda su producción académica puede consultarse en: https://uv.academia.

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2020-05-30

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Barrio, A. (2020) “The Weakness of Populism in Spain”, Debats. Journal on culture, power and society, 134(1), pp. 233–246. doi: 10.28939/iam.debats.134-1.14.

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Vol. 134 No. 1 (2020)

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