New Perspectives on Populism

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-35645-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 279 g

Populism has taken the world by storm—but what is it? In this volume, twelve political scientists and political theorists approach this question from a variety of new perspectives, empirical and theoretic, covering populism around the world. In addition to chapters on populism in Eastern Europe and Britain, six authors analyse populism in the United States, treating it, variously, as a reaction against technocracy, a form of technocracy, a manifestation of regional and class norms, a violent ideological import, and (potentially) a progressive democratic phenomenon. All the contributors attempt to understand populists on their own terms rather than reducing populism to a psychological or structural phenomenon.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Critical Review.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedman, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Can the EU Stop Eastern Europe’s Illiberal Turn? 2. Populism and Presidential Representation 3. Populism in America: Christopher Lasch, bell hooks, and the Persistence of Democratic Possibility 4. The Plague of Bannonism 5. Populists as Technocrats 6. Liberal Democracy, National Identity Boundaries, and Populist Entry Points 7. Brexit, Positional Populism, and the Declining Appeal of Valence Politics 8. Trump: New Populist or Old Democrat? 9. The Border Wall as a Populist Challenge 10. Of Scribes and Tribes: Progressive Politics and the Populist Challenge

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Friedman, the Editor of Critical Review, is a visiting scholar in the Social Studies program at Harvard University, USA. He has taught political theory at Barnard College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Yale University, and is the author of Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy (2019).