Exclusion is the theme that draws these papers together.  The papers in this session examine different forms of public political discourses of exclusion  and their capapcity to reach an audience of citizens.  In some instances, the papers on Hungary (Fox and Vidra; Molnar) for example, identify a new collective ressoance to formerly stigmatized discourses, i.e., racism and anti-semitism. the Spektorowski paper focuses upon the failure of liberalism examines in a trans-European context a revival of exclusionist nationalism drawing explicit connections between the 1930s and today.  The Mudge paper focuses on mass political persuasion in the digital age and reveals how technology contributes to a blurring of ideological boundaries that the left and the right can exploit.