Contemporary populism : a controversial concept and its diverse forms

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edited by Sergiu Gherghina, Sergiu Mişcoiu and Sorina Soare.
Language
English. English.
Publication
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Gherghina, Sergiu editor.
Mișcoiu, Sergiu editor.
Soare, Sorina, editor.

Contents/Summary

Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Introduction: Populism
  • a sophisticated concept and diverse political realities / Sergiu Gherghina and Sorina Soare
  • From populism to neo-populism? Empirical guidelines for a conceptual delineation / Sergiu Mişcoiu
  • The "common idiot" of populism / Chantal Delsol
  • The ideological components of populism / Daniel Şandru
  • Foundational populism / Guy Hermet
  • Populism and political science: how to get rid of the "Cinderella complex" / Marco Tarchi
  • A Latin-American polemic: populism / Yann Basset and Stephen Launay
  • Populism and democracy in Africa / Alexander B. Makulilo
  • The facets and offshoots of populism in Sub-Saharan Africa / Emmanuel M. Banywesize
  • Rednecks and watermelons: the rise and fall of populist parties in modern Australian politics / Dylan Kissane
  • In the name of the people! Contemporary populism(s) in Scandinavia / Anders Ravik Jupskås
  • Italy: varieties of populist leadership / Flavio Chiapponi
  • Neo-populism in the post-communist zodiac / Michael Shafir
  • Old and new populism in Russian politics / Mara Morini.
Publisher's summary
The fundamental question uniting the contributions to this volume is: what exactly is populism? This is certainly not a new question, as a large amount of literature has focused on this topic for more than half a century. As little conceptual consensus has been reached so far, this book aims to reduce the level of abstraction. To this end, it approaches the populist phenomenon from a broader theoretical and empirical perspective, making reference to its developments on several continents. The book is divided into two parts: the first is theoretical and discusses various perspectives on populism, while the second is empirical and emphasises the diversity of the forms populism has embraced throughout the world. Without aiming to solve old dilemmas, to cover all the existing forms of populism, or to outline unequivocal conclusions, the contributions to this book fulfil a twofold task. On the one hand, they help to clarify theoretically a concept that is difficult to grasp and use. On the other hand, by way of reflecting these difficulties, they present several forms of populism worldwide. Their main purpose is to highlight the differences between the continents. Each of the chapters in the second section successfully accomplishes this, providing an overview that is useful both in analysing populism and in identifying the populist elements in national and international political actions or discourses.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

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2013
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2013
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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ISBN
1443849979 (electronic book)
9781443849975 (electronic book)
9781443848695 (hardback)
1443848697 (hardback)

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