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Breeding Grounds for Croatia’s Conservative Social Movements

Furthermore, these right wing movements have an implicit populist disposition. In contrast to broadly liberal democratic norms, those advocating for open and pluralist conceptions of society, with a focus on solving and reforming social issues and problems, populism insists on closed collective identities, perpetually searching enemies to eradicate or otherwise exclude.1 Accordingly, this chapter will show that the rise of conservative social movements in Croatia was directly connected to the broader rise of populist politics both within and outside the country’s political establishment. And secondly, that this right populist surge was especially prevalent in periods in which the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) was the official government opposition, and that these movements then acted as de facto proxies and surrogates of the HDZ.

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