Cas Mudde

Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser

A timely overview of populism, one of the most contested concepts in political journalism and the social sciences.

A Very Short Introduction

Populism

Kirk Andrew Hawkins

Ryan E. Carlin

Levente Littvay

Populism is on the rise in Europe and the Americas. Scholars increasingly understand populist forces in terms of their ideas or discourse, one that envisions a cosmic struggle between the will of the common people and a conspiring elite. In this volume, we advance populism scholarship by proposing a causal theory and methodological guidelines - a research program - based on this ideational approach. This program argues that populism exists as a set of widespread attitudes among ordinary citizens, and that these attitudes lie dormant until activated by weak democratic governance and policy failure. It offers methodological guidelines for scholars seeking to measure populist ideas and test their effects. And, to ground the program empirically, it tests this theory at multiple levels of analysis using original data on populist discourse across European and US party systems; case studies of populist forces in Europe, Latin America, and the US; survey data from Europe and Latin America; and experiments in Chile, the US, and the UK. The result is a truly systematic, comparative approach that helps answer questions about the causes and effects of populism.

Concept, Theory, and Analysis

The Ideational Approach to Populism

The first cross-regional study to show that populism can have both positive and negative effects on democracy.

Threat Or Corrective for Democracy?

Populism in Europe and the Americas

Aus diesem Blickwinkel müssen Bildung und Erneuerung der Eliten als Prozesse von langer Dauer verstanden werden, die entscheidend für die historische Entwicklung aller Gesellschaften sind. Auf Grundlage dieser theoretischen Diskussion untersucht das Buch die Geschichte Lateinamerikas von der politischen Emanzipation von Europa bis zum ökonomischen Zusammenbruch von 1982. Dabei stehen Argentinien, Brasilien, Chile und Mexiko im Fokus, so dass vier Länder im Detail vergleichend untersucht werden. Der Autor lenkt den Blick auf die Frage, inwiefern gemeinsame Probleme - etwa die politische Unabhängigkeit von Europa, die Formierung des Staates oder der Umgang mit der sozialen Frage - von den jeweiligen Eliten eines Landes unterschiedlich wahrgenommen und gelöst worden sind.-

Das Ringen um gesellschaftliche Führung in Lateinamerika, 1810-1982

Kampf der Eliten

Juan Pablo Luna

Students and scholars of both Latin American politics and comparative politics will find The Resilience of the Latin American Right of vital interest.

The Resilience of the Latin American Right

Tim Bale

Cutting-edge comparative analysis of the challenges posed by the populist radical right to Western Europe's Conservative, Liberal and Christian Democratic parties.

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