📢 ECPS Interview
📌 Prof. Wind: Mainstream Parties in Denmark Have Absorbed, Not Neutralized, the Radical Right
✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli
⚡️As Denmark approaches the March 24, 2026 general election, Professor Marlene Wind (
@MwiWind) offers a sharp, research-driven diagnosis of a deeper transformation within European democracies. 🇩🇰🗳️
📍In this timely ECPS interview, Professor Wind challenges the conventional narrative of far-right containment, arguing instead that mainstream actors have internalized key elements of radical-right agendas. “The argument that we have managed to eradicate the extreme right is simply not accurate,” she warns—highlighting how restrictive policies have migrated into the political center.
🔎 Her analysis situates Denmark at the intersection of:
🌐 Geopolitical rupture (Greenland crisis, Ukraine war, transatlantic tensions)
🏛️ Institutional recalibration within the EU
⚠️ The normalization of illiberal political logics
🌎Despite rising geopolitical stakes, Professor Wind notes that these dynamics remain a “background condition,” while domestic concerns—💰 cost of living, 🏥 welfare, 🚧 migration—continue to dominate the campaign.
📉 Crucially, support for right-wing politics remains stable at 17–20%, suggesting not decline—but diffusion.
💬 A must-read for understanding how liberal democracies adapt, absorb, and risk reproducing the very forces they seek to resist.
📕 Read the interview: 🔗
populismstudies.org/prof-win…
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