The normalization of left populism? The paradigmatic case of Podemos

Mazzolini, Samuele; Borriello, Arthur

doi:10.1080/23745118.2020.1868849

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“…)-one that is narrowly focused on electoral media cycles without aspiring to real basebuilding but rather aiming for social dominance writ large (ibid.). This organizational preoccupation against populism as a prerequisite for the sustainability of political projects is also found in Sotiris (2019, p. 34) and Mazzolini and Borriello (2021). Indeed, the sustainability of political projects requires material organization rooted at the local, national, and international levels.…”

Section: Is the Populist Moment Over For The Left?mentioning

confidence: 71%

“…The main feature of the radical left is its opposition to neoliberalism that, as March ( 2011) highlights, has lost its weight in many of the so-called radical left parties. Similarly, Mazzolini and Borriello (2021) also distinguish between populist and leftist performativity. They argue that part of the reasons PODEMOS declined was rooted in its shift from the "irreconcilable antagonistic relation to the Spanish political system [.…”

Section: From Conceptual Analysis To Historical Genealogymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They argue that part of the reasons PODEMOS declined was rooted in its shift from the “irreconcilable antagonistic relation to the Spanish political system […] to an agonistic opposition to some of its aspects” (Mazzolini & Borriello, 2021, p. 6). Perhaps PODEMOS’ fadeout coincided with the party's strategic choice to abandon its populist direction by recuperating the leftist vocabulary and symbolism and turning to “the niche of the left” than to “the limelight of the political stage” (Mazzolini & Borriello, 2021, pp. 6, 8, 13).…”

Section: Left‐wing Populism: An Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At any rate, success to enter government is not synonymous with success “in power.” The salience of “the old”—in fact, crumbling, cleavages, and patterns of political representation—imposed serious limits on contemporary European populist contenders (Mazzolini & Borriello, 2021, pp. 2, 8).…”

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“…Particular focus has been placed on several organizations: Syriza in Greece (Stavrakakis and Katsambekis, 2014;Ramiro and Gomez, 2017), La France insoumise (Cervera-Marzal, 2021;Chloé et al, 2021), Podemos in Spain (Mazzolini and Borriello, 2021), The Portuguese Left Bloc-BE- (Lisi, 2009(Lisi, , 2016, and to a lesser extent, Die Linke in Germany (Landwehrlen, 2010;Chiocchetti, 2017). Paradoxically, one of the biggest parties on the radical left, the Progressive Party of Working People-AKEL-has not been revisited in any great depth (Charalambous, 2012;Katsourides, 2016).…”

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The Labor Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA): A Modern Radical Left Party?

Delwit

2022

Front. Polit. Sci.

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In a phase of political and electoral downturn of several radical left parties, the Labor Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) strikes the imagination due to its increasing influence. A party of Maoist origin, the PTB-PVDA has been undergoing organizational and communication change since the mid-2000's. In this article, we argue that these changes have created a very singular party. Going against prevailing partisan developments, the heart of the party remains the party-in-central-office. The party has quite a dynamic life between elections, seeks to recruit and recruits party members, trains and mobilizes its membership, borrowing from the paths of historical Belgian pillarization or the model of party of social integration. At the same time, the PTB-PVDA incorporates current partisan modifications: a strong personification, a great investment in social networks, a populist rhetoric, a redesigned communication and a focus on elections to be able to benefit from public party funding. This combination of old and new makes it one of a kind party in Europe and among the European Radical Left. However, this original organizational scheme raises the question of its fate: the aggregation of the various elements requires that it remains in the parliamentary opposition.

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Podemos

Agustín¹

2022

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

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In January 2014 the document “Mover ficha” (Moving forward) was published in Madrid by various activists and intellectuals. The aim was to present a Left candidature for the European Parliament (EP) elections in order to articulate an alternative to EU austerity policies, as Syriza was also doing at the time in Greece. This was the foundational moment of Podemos (“We can”). The political initiative involved a convergence of different actors: the indignados activists that reclaimed more democracy since they felt that traditional parties did not represent them; Izquierda Anticapitalista (Anti‐capitalist Left), a Trotskyist organization which played a leading foundational role; and a group of political science professors, including Pablo Iglesias, Íñigo Errejón, and Juan Carlos Monedero, at Universidad Complutense in Madrid, who were inspired by the Latin American progressive governments (the so‐called Pink Tide) and were interested in political communication.

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The normalization of left populism? The paradigmatic case of Podemos

Cited by 101 publications

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Bound to fail? Assessing contemporary left populism

Bound to fail? Assessing contemporary left populism

The Labor Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA): A Modern Radical Left Party?

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