(146) According to Rizman, the transition period is a complex and uncertain switch from a closed or semi-closed authoritarian society into an open democratic society. In such a time, every society is confronted with risk conditions. One of the negative effects of these risk conditions is the manifestation of a xenophobia that was suppressed under socialism. In Eastern and Central European post-socialist space, we can find similar politically organized expressions of such xenophobia and demagogic populism. As such, Craig Nation classifies Mečiar of Slovakia, Tudjman of Croatia, Janša of Slovenia, Berisha of Albania, Lukashenko of Belarus, and so on. All these politicians led political parties that can be described as ‘Fürerparteien’ in the West, for instance the party of Jörg Heider in Austria, Finni and Bossi in Italy and Le Pen’s party in France .
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