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Draining the Swamp: Understanding the Crisis in Mainstream Politics as a Crisis of the State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2017

Abby Innes
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Abstract

This paper examines Poland, Hungary, the UK and the US the most surprising cases of populist reaction. It argues that the social polarization caused by the failures of hyper-liberal reforms to the state, and the association of Social Democratic parties with those reforms, has provoked alienation from liberal democratic politics.

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Critical Forum: Global Populisms
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Slavic Review , Volume 76 , Supplement S1 , August 2017 , pp. S30 - S38
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2017 

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