This is the first book-length account of populism in the Visegr d 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. Advancing a post-foundational approach to populism based on a semi-formal reading of Ernesto Laclau's theory, the book undertakes a detailed examination of how the 'people' has been...