By Cas Mudde
ISBN-10: 0190234873
ISBN-13: 9780190234874
"Populism is a vital proposal within the present media debates approximately politics and elections. besides the fact that, like so much political buzzwords, the time period frequently floats from one intending to one other, and either social scientists and newshounds use it to indicate different phenomena. what's populism relatively? who're the populist leaders? and what's the connection among populism and democracy? This booklet solutions those questions in a
"Populism is vital to present debates approximately politics, from radical correct events in Europe to left-wing presidents in Latin the United States to the Tea get together within the usa. yet populism can be probably the most contested options within the social sciences. This ebook deals a well timed and wide-ranging consultant to figuring out populism either in thought and perform, highlighting its relevance for the modern political debate"-- Read more...
summary: "Populism is a principal proposal within the present media debates approximately politics and elections. even if, like such a lot political buzzwords, the time period frequently floats from one desiring to one other, and either social scientists and newshounds use it to indicate various phenomena. what's populism particularly? who're the populist leaders? and what's the connection among populism and democracy? This publication solutions those questions in an easy and persuasive approach, delivering a rapid consultant to populism in idea and perform. Cas Mudde and Crist©đbal Rovera Kaltwasser current populism as an ideology that divides society into hostile camps, the "pure humans" as opposed to the "corrupt elite," and that privileges the final will of the folk mainly else. They illustrate the sensible strength of this ideology via a survey of consultant populist hobbies of the trendy period: eu right-wing events, left-wing presidents in Latin the USA, and the Tea celebration stream within the usa. The authors delve into the ambivalent personalities of charismatic populist leaders reminiscent of Juan Domingo P©♭ron, H. Ross Perot, Jean-Marie le Pen, Silvio Berlusconi, and Hugo Ch©Łvez. If the robust male chief embodies the mainstream type of populism, many resolute ladies, akin to Eva P©♭ron, Pauline Hanson, and Sarah Palin, have additionally succeeded in development a populist prestige, frequently by means of exploiting gendered notions of society. even if populism is eventually a part of democracy, populist events represent an expanding problem to democratic politics. evaluating political developments throughout diverse nations, this compelling ebook debates what the long term outcomes of this problem can be, because it turns the highlight at the bewildering impact of populism on contemporary political and social existence. "--
"Populism is primary to present debates approximately politics, from radical correct events in Europe to left-wing presidents in Latin the US to the Tea occasion within the usa. yet populism can be probably the most contested thoughts within the social sciences. This ebook bargains a well timed and wide-ranging consultant to knowing populism either in thought and perform, highlighting its relevance for the modern political debate"
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For example, in eastern and central Europe leading politicians of right-wing populist parties such as Attack in Bulgaria and the Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik) have accused the national elites of being agents of Israeli or Jewish interests. Finally, populism can be merged completely with nationalism, when the distinction between the people and the elite is both moral and ethnic. Here the elite are not just seen as agents of an alien power, they are considered alien themselves. ” Leaving aside the anti-Semitic rhetoric in eastern Europe, ethnic populism (or “ethnopopulism”) is most evident in contemporary Latin America.
S. populism from a primarily progressive into a predominantly reactionary phenomenon. For the anti-communist populists “the people” were the common and patriotic (“real”) Americans from the heartland, whereas “the elite” lived in the coastal areas, notably the Northeast, and covertly or overtly supported “un-American” socialist ideas. Linking populism to producerism, in which the pure people are squeezed between a corrupt elite above them and a racialized underclass below them, they accused the elite of mooching off the hard work of the people and of “redistributing” their wealth to the non-white underclass to stay in power.
In contrast to most other regions, populism is mostly associated with authoritarian strongmen like Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni and Zambian president Michael Sata, whose populism was part of an intra-elite struggle for power. Museveni introduced a “no-party system,” based on plebiscitarian instruments like referendums, and strongly opposed liberal democratic institutions like independent courts. ” Even in the exceptional case of South Africa, one of the few liberal democracies on the continent, populism has emerged mostly from within the establishment.