Authoritarian Populism and Hegemony: Constructing ‘the People’ in Macedonia’s illiberal discourse

This paper is a theoretically driven case study of the authoritarian populist reign of VMRO-DPMNE and its leader Nikola Gruevski in Macedonia since 2006. At the beginning, I assess the strengths and identify the pitfalls of the dominant approach to studying populism that sees populist politics as de...

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Main Author: Ljupcho Petkovski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for Southeast European Studies 2016-12-01
Series:Contemporary Southeastern Europe
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Online Access:http://unipub.uni-graz.at/cse/periodical/pageview/1617336