Those were the days:Welfare nostalgia and the populist radical right in the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden

In academia and beyond, it has become commonplace to regard populist parties-in particular, those on the radical right-As the archetypical embodiment of politics of nostalgia. Demand-side studies suggest that nostalgic sentiments motivate populist radical-right (PRR) voting and welfare chauvinist attitudes, yet systematic analyses of the nostalgic discourse that these parties promote have not been forthcoming. This paper seeks to fill that lacuna by analysing how the Freedom Party of Austria, the Dutch Party for Freedom and the Sweden Democrats framed the historical fate of the welfare state i... Mehr ...