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- Title
Varieties of Populism in Europe: Is the Rule of Law in Danger?
- Authors
Bugaric, Bojan; Kuhelj, Alenka
- Abstract
What the current surge of populism shows is that the rule of law and liberal democracy find themselves in great danger when the breadth of democratic support for their core principles begins to decrease. Both in Hungary and Poland, the populist forces relatively easily undermined the rule of law and democracy, and steered politics in a dangerous authoritarian direction. Ultimately, democratic political parties with credible political ideas and platforms offer the best hope for protection of liberal democracy. As the Western European examples show, as long as there exist credible liberal political platforms, the threat to the rule of law and democracy is not existential. While populists in Western Europe challenge certain liberal values and policies, they lack the capacity to threaten the essence of liberal democracy.
- Subjects
EUROPE; RULE of law; DEMOCRACY; CONSTITUTIONALISM; POPULISM
- Publication
Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1876-4045
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s40803-018-0075-4