Discontent With What? Linking Self-Centered and Society-Centered Discontent to Populist Party Support

Channelling discontent? Non-voters, populist party voters, and their meaningful political agency

This article assesses the assumption that populist parties form an efficacious exhaust valve for voters, the channelling discontent thesis, as it is termed here. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Dutch PVV voters and (deliberate) nonvoters, I assess this thesis in a comparison between them. This analysis shows that non-voters do not lack political fulfilment on two of the three dimensions of ...

Institutionalized Discontent

Examining past experiences of student activism at Berkeley this article suggests that the present storm of political correctness sweeping American universities represents more than just another of the periodic crusades that have disrupted academic life over the years. The current wave of activism is different largely because the ever-present minorities of militant faculty and student activists ...

Distance, delay, and discontent.

Discontent and Discourse

By most counts, the world is a better place today than it was in ancient times. First and foremost, we have the comforts that come from our greater collective wealth. But even apart from that, we do not live in perpetual fear that another nation’s marauding army will come and take away our land and belongings. When we return home from dining out, we do not expect to find that strangers have bro...

Discontent and Discourse

By most counts, the world is a better place today than it was in ancient times. First and foremost, we have the comforts that come from our greater collective wealth. But even apart from that, we do not live in perpetual fear that another nation’s marauding army will come and take away our land and belongings. When we return home from dining out, we do not expect to find that strangers have bro...