The Guardian
Dr Sean Hanley responds to an editorial on the collapse of social democratic parties as rightwing nationalism flourishes Your editorial on the politics of central Europe ( 28 April ) rightly notes the collapse of many traditional centre-left parties. But its explanation is incomplete and oddly exceptionalist. Much of what you describe – the erosion of social democratic parties after market liberalisation, the political aftershocks of the financial crisis, migration-driven cultural conflict and the drift of older and less metropolitan voters towards variegated forms of populism – is visible across much of western Europe. These are not uniquely eastern pathologies. Continue reading...
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