Populist Parties and Democratic Resilience focuses on populist parties as the main agents of populism and examines when these parties turn anti-democratic and when they remain loyal to the democratic system.

Ben Crum is Professor of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Alvaro Oleart is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science and the Institute for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

1. Introduction: Populist Parties, Pluralism and Democratic Systems in Europe 2. Varieties of Populism in East-Central Europe: From Democratic Challenge to Illiberal Project 3. Explaining Democratic Backsliding in Poland: The Interplay of Party-specific and Contextual Factors 4. Anti-pluralist Reactions to an Anti-pluralist Party: The 'Alternative for Germany' and the German Party System 5. Making a Wor(l)d of Difference? The National Front's Anti-pluralist Stands and their Evolution Over Time 6. Protector of the People or Enemy of Democracy? Vlaams Belang's Anti-pluralist Discourse and Institutional Barriers in the Flemish Political System 7. Party System Hospitality, Internal Strife, and Radicalisation: The Evolution of the Partij voor de Vrijheid and the Forum voor Democratie in the Netherlands 8. Taming Populist Anti-pluralism? The Effect of Changing Centre-right Strategies on the Austrian Freedom Party 9. The Five Star Movement and its Challenge to the Pluralistic Foundations of Italian Democracy 10. The Conditioning of Podemos by Mainstream PSOE between 2014 and 2020: From Transformative Populism to Mainstream Centre-left Coalition Partner 11. Conclusion: How to Channel Populism in Europe Democratically