Cinpoes, Radu ORCID: 0009-0002-4930-5609 (2020) Nostalgic nationalism, welfare chauvinism, and migration anxieties in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Norocel, Ov Cristian, Hellström, Anders and Jørgensen, Martin Bak, (eds.) Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe. IMISCOE Research Series . Springer Open, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 51-65. ISBN 978-3030416935; 978-3030416942 ISSN 23644095 23644087 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41694-2_4)

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This contribution examines, in the Central and Eastern European context, the interplay between ideals of national specificity, welfare chauvinist appeals, and emerging politics of migration, for the purpose of providing welfare provision to a narrowly defined ethnic group, as promoted by right-wing populist parties in the region. We suggest a comparative framework to account the various positions that such parties occupy in the mainstream political systems in Central and Eastern Europe. Our study deals with the case of a right-wing populist party becoming the main governing force, such as the Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) in Poland; the case of a right-wing populist party as key opposition force, such as the Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom, Jobbik) in Hungary; and thirdly, the case of an unsuccessful right-wing populist party, such as the United Romania Party (Partidul România Unită, PRU). For our qualitative analysis we are drawing on the official discourses of these parties as articulated from 2015 onwards, since it marks the beginning of what has come to be referred to as the European refugee crisis. The aim of this chapter is to map out the various electoral strategies employed, with varying degrees of success, which juxtapose cultural protectionist appeals to welfare chauvinist proposals, and consequently shed light on the culture and welfare nexus in the Central and Eastern European context.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	nationalism; welfare chauvinism; migration; Central and Eastern Europe
Subjects:	J Political Science > J General legislative and executive papers J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JZ International relations
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
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Last Modified:	18 Sep 2024 13:58
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/47482

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