Party Organisation after the Square Movements in Europe

Seongcheol Kim is a postdoctoral researcher at the University College Freiburg. He has authored four monographs (one of them co-authored as lead author) and over two dozen (mostly single-authored) peer-reviewed journal articles, including in leading journals of comparative politics, political theory, and intra-European area studies. Recent publications include ‘Towards an Antiwar Transnational Populism? An Analysis of the Construction of “the Russian People” in Volodymyr Zelensky’s Wartime Speeches’ (Government and Opposition, 2025) and ‘Far-Right Movement Parties in Europe: Two Perspectives’ (Nations and Nationalism, 2025). Lazaros Karavasilis is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen, Germany. His research focuses on the study of political parties, discourse analysis, populism, and the European radical left and radical right, within a comparative perspective. He is currently a co-editor of e-Extreme, the newsletter of the ECPR Extremism & Democracy Standing Group and has published journal articles, book reviews, and opinion articles in newspapers. Martin Nonhoff is Professor of Political Theory at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen, Germany. He focuses on discourse theory and (radical) democratic theory. He is co-editor of the critically acclaimed Handbook of Radical Democratic Theory (in German, with Suhrkamp). He is chairman of the Political Theory and Intellectual History Section of the German Association for Political Science and one of the principal investigators of the Research Training Group on Contradiction Studies at the University of Bremen (funded by the German Research Foundation).

• List of AbbreviationsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Party Politics and the Movements of the Squares in EuropeChapter 1. Horizontality, Verticality, and Party Organisation After the Squares: A Theoretical FrameworkChapter 2. Discursive-Organisational Analysis: A Methodological FrameworkChapter 3. After 15-M: New forms of Party Organisation in Spain between Horizontalism and VerticalismChapter 4. After the Aganaktismenoi: Left and Right Iterations of Verticalist Party Organisation in GreeceChapter 5. After the For Fair Elections Protests: New Forms of Party Organisation and Oppositional Politics in RussiaChapter 6. After Euromaidan: New Forms of Party Organisation in Ukraine Within and Beyond the Business-firm Party ModelChapter 7. After PEGIDA: New Forms of Verticalist Party Organisation on the Far Right in GermanyChapter 8. After the Yellow Vests: Left and Right Iterations of Verticalism in FranceConclusions: Party Organisation After the Squares in Comparative PerspectiveBibliography