Queries: What is your take on the evolution of the Finns Party (former True Finns) and their nationalist-populist rhetoric? MN: In 2011, in one night, they jumped from 5 to 39 parliamentary seats. This meant that a huge bunch of new MPs were quite or totally inexperienced as such. After the last elections, they have […]
Mari K. Niemi is a senior researcher at the University of Tampere (Finland). She is a visiting scholar at the University of Strathclyde (UK) and the author of several works about political leadership and populism, mainly related to Finland and the UK.