National Populism and Borders. The Politicisation of Cross-Border Mobilisations in Europe

1 Introduction: national populism and the politicisation of
borders in a changing Europe 1
Oscar Mazzoleni

PART I NATIONAL POPULISTS’ CONSTRUCTION
OF BORDERS
2 The politicisation of borders in national-populist
discourse: Geneva and Ticino during the COVID-19 pandemic 17
Cecilia Biancalana and Grégoire Yerly
3 Convergence without conflict? Trans-border
national-populist strategies in multi-scalar spaces of mobilisation 37
Cecilia Biancalana and Oscar Mazzoleni
4 Framing the people and the elites: two models of
national-populist border politicisation. The case of the
Geneva and Basel cross-border regions 55
Grégoire Yerly
5 Do bordering preferences affect the populist attitudes of citizens? 78
Laurent Bernhard

PART II BORDERS AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
6 What drives elite opinions on European integration?
Examining the territorial dimension 96
Lukas Lauener and Laurent Bernhard
7 Breaking down public opinion on European integration:
the role of national borders 119
Lukas Lauener
8 Direct democracy, border residence and Euroscepticism:
evidence from a proposition to terminate the free
movement of persons between Switzerland and the
European Union 143
Laurent Bernhard and Lukas Lauener

PART III CITIZENS’ ATTITUDES IN CROSS-BORDER
SPACES OF MOBILISATION
9 Cross-border relations and national-populist politicisation:
a citizen perspective 166
Andrea Pilotti and Oscar Mazzoleni
10 Between economy and constituency: ambivalent attitudes
towards cross-border workers 193
Oscar Mazzoleni and Andrea Pilotti
11 Not really a “left-behind” place: national-populist
re-bordering in a rich but declining periphery 210
Oscar Mazzoleni and Andrea Pilotti
12 Conclusions: multi-scalar national populism and border
politicisation 229
Cecilia Biancalana and Oscar Mazzoleni

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