Even such huge scandals, which lead to the dissolution of a government, resignation of a vice-chancellor and the disclosure of massive corruption, might conclude with more of the same.
Ruth Wodak
Ruth Wodak is emeritus distinguished professor at Lancaster University and the University of Vienna, with a research focus on identity politics, the politics of the past and discourses of the populist far-right. Recent publications include Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist and Global Challenges (edited with Pieter Bevelander, Nordicum 2019), The Handbook of Language and Politics (edited with Bernhard Forchtner, Routledge 2017) and The Politics of Fear: What Right-wing Populist Discourses Mean (Sage 2015).