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Party Organisation after the Square Movements in Europe examines the party-political afterlives of the post-2010/11 movements of the squares through a comparative lens. Spanning a wide range of party projects from the radical left to the far right, it traces new forms of party organisation that emerged in response to major square protests in six European countries: 15-M/Indignados in Spain, Aganaktismenoi in Greece, 'For fair elections' in Russia, Euromaidan in Ukraine, PEGIDA in Germany and Yellow Vests in France. The book develops an original framework of discursive-organisational analysis (DOA) based on post-foundational discourse analysis following Laclau and Mouffe.
Drawing on the analytical vocabulary of horizontalism and verticalism, the book develops a cross-national typology of post-squares party forms along the overarching classificatory dimension of horizontalism/verticalism. The party types within this classificatory scheme range from movement parties as a paradigmatically horizontalist form of party organisation to leader-centred digital parties such as Podemos and France Insoumise.
Contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Party Politics and the Movements of the Squares in Europe
Chapter 1. Horizontality, Verticality, and Party Organisation After the Squares: A Theoretical Framework
Chapter 2. Discursive-Organisational Analysis: A Methodological Framework
Chapter 3. After 15-M: New forms of Party Organisation in Spain between Horizontalism and Verticalism
Chapter 4. After the Aganaktismenoi: Left and Right Iterations of Verticalist Party Organisation in Greece
Chapter 5. After the For Fair Elections Protests: New Forms of Party Organisation and Oppositional Politics in Russia
Chapter 6. After Euromaidan: New Forms of Party Organisation in Ukraine Within and Beyond the Business-firm Party Model
Chapter 7. After PEGIDA: New Forms of Verticalist Party Organisation on the Far Right in Germany
Chapter 8. After the Yellow Vests: Left and Right Iterations of Verticalism in France
Conclusions: Party Organisation After the Squares in Comparative Perspective
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