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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452265503321

Titolo

Contemporary populism [[electronic resource]] : a controversial concept and its diverse forms / / edited by Sergiu Gherghina, Sergiu Mişcoiu and Sorina Soare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, Neb., : Cambridge Scholars Pub., c2013

ISBN

1-4438-4997-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GherghinaSergiu

MișcoiuSergiu

SoareSorina

Disciplina

324.213

Soggetti

Populism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; FROM POPULISM TO NEO-POPULISM?; THE "COMMON IDIOT" OF POPULISM; THE IDEOLOGICAL COMPONENTS OF POPULISM; FOUNDATIONAL POPULISM; POPULISM AND POLITICAL SCIENCE; PART II; A LATIN-AMERICAN POLEMIC; POPULISM AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA; THE FACETS AND OFFSHOOTS OF POPULISM IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; REDNECKS AND WATERMELONS; IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE!; ITALY; NEO-POPULISM IN THE POST-COMMUNIST ZODIAC; OLD AND NEW POPULISM IN RUSSIAN POLITICS

Sommario/riassunto

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 populis