Seongcheol Kim is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Introduction: Discourse, Hegemony, Populism, and the Visegrád Four 1. Discourse - Hegemony - Populism: A Conceptual Horizon 2. Discourse - Hegemony - Populism: A Framework for Analysis 3. Populism in the Czech Republic 4. Populism in Hungary 5. Populism in Poland 6. Populism in Slovakia 7. Conclusions: Discourse, Hegemony, and Populism after '89

This is the first book-length account of populism in the Visegrád Four (V4) countries - Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia - for the first 30 years of multi-party competition since the transformative events of 1989-91 in Central and Eastern Europe.