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National Populists are winning seats around Europe and liberal democracy finds itself
increasingly undermined. According to the report Democracy in Crisis (2020)1
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number of countries that have suffered democratic setbacks surpasses the number having
achieved gains in this realm. This dissertation for the MA Program in Governance,
Leadership and Democracy Studies will reflect on how the cultural backlash is fueling
white identity resentments through the fear of ethnic change. According to Kaufmann
(2018), in order to understand the phenomenon of national populism, the issue of
migration “is central and ethnic change is the story.” (Kaufmann 2018,11).
According to Goodwin and Eatwell (2018) the national populist phenomenon reflects
deeprooted fears about immigration and hyper ethnic change (Goodwin and Eatwell
2018,132). People feel instinctively negative about how immigration could threaten their
national identity, and consequently lead to the destruction of the wider group identity,
calling into question the future of the white majority (Taub 2016; Kaufmann 2018;
Eatwell and Goodwin 2018).
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National populism Hyper ethnic change Immigration Whiteshift Demographic anxiety