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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818179803321

Autore

Hellström Anders

Titolo

Trust us : reproducing the nation and the Scandinavian nationalist populist parties / / by Anders Hellström

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78238-928-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

324.2/1830948

Soggetti

Political parties - Scandinavia

Nationalism - Scandinavia

Populism - Scandinavia

Multiculturalism - Political aspects - Scandinavia

Scandinavia Ethnic relations Political aspects

Scandinavia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Gaining Credibility in the Public Debate; Chapter 1 - Towards a Multi-Dimensional Political Party Space; Chapter 2 - National Myths as Political Opportunity Structures and Editorial Writers as Opinion Makers; Chapter 3 - National Myth Making in Sweden, Norway and Denmark; Chapter 4 - Issues and Tone Towards the Nationalist Populist Parties in Mainstream Press Editorials in Scandinavia; Chapter 5 - Framing the National Populist Parties in Mainstream Press Editorials in Scandinavia; Conclusion: Similar, Yet Different; Epilogue

Appendix 1Appendix 2 - Mean Tone towards the Party by newspaper, 2009-2012; Appendix 3 - Topics in the Newspapers; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Scandinavia, there is separation in the electorate between those who embrace diversity and those who wish for tighter bonds between people and nation. This book focuses on three nationalist populist parties in Scandinavia—the Sweden Democrats, the Progress Party in Norway, and the Danish People’s Party. In order to affect domestic politics by addressing this conflict of diversity versus homogeneity,



these parties must enter the national parliament while earning the nation’s trust. Of the three, the Sweden Democrats have yet to earn the trust of the mainstream, leading to polarized and emotionally driven public debate that raises the question of national identity and what is understood as the common man.