How populists wage opposition:Parliamentary opposition party behaviour and populism in Netherlands

This article analyses how populist parties wage opposition in parliament. The authors conceptualise opposition behaviour in terms of two independent dimensions: scrutiny (monitoring and criticising government actions) and policy-making (participating in or directly influencing legislative production). In line with the conceptualisation of populism as an opposition to the ruling elite in name of ‘the people’, the authors hypothesis is that populist opposition parties are more likely to use scrutiny and less likely to use policy-making tools than non-populist opposition parties. Otjes and Louwer... Mehr ...