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oa VOOR DE VORST, MAAR IN NAAM VAN HET VOLK
Hoe het conservatieve ‘Dagblad van Zuidholland en ’s-Gravenhage’ populistische trekjes kreeg
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: De Moderne Tijd, Volume 2, Issue 2, Jan 2018, p. 115 - 134
Abstract
FOR THE KING, BUT IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE
How the conservative ‘Dagblad van Zuidholland en ’s-Gravenhage’ developed its populist traits
The Dutch conservatives in the nineteenth century used the concept of volkskoning (the people’s king) to legitimize their defence of royal prerogatives against the increasing power of parliament. This concept emphasized the bond between monarch and people and depicted the political elite as a threat to both. Based on a study of the conservative newspaper Dagblad van Zuidholland en ’s-Gravenhage, this article argues that the idea of the volkskoning was developed into a more populist argument in which the people became the de facto sovereign who had to be protected against the rotten elite in parliament.
© Corné Smit