Description
Populism
An Introduction
Key Ideas Series
Author: Anselmi Manuel
Language: English
Keywords
Young Man; populism; Advanced Industrial Capitalist Countries; social power; Gianroberto Casaleggio; social disintermediation; Jewish American Sociologist; Norbert Elias; Rovira Kaltwasser; charismatic leadership; Industrial Evolution; Latin American populism; National Populist Movement; modernisation; Direct Democracy; urbanisation; Populist Phenomena; European populism; Contemporary Societies; national-populism; Laclau’s Theory; French National Front; Margaret Canovan; heartland; Cas Mudde; social methods; Constitutional Populism; complex social strategy; Reparative Penalties; social polarization; Tv Schedule; political inclusion; Renzi’s Leadership; social mobilization; Constitutional Instrumentalism; social dynamics; Croat Peasant Party; crisis of representation; Italian Political Context; new democracies; Mudde’s Definition; neopopulisms; Penal Populism; scientific literature; Tsar Alexander II; ideology; Vice Versa; Ma; Media populism; Cultural populism; judicial system; Democracy; Anselmi Manuel
Publication date: 08-2017
· 12.9x19.8 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 08-2017
· 12.9x19.8 cm · Hardback
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Populism: An Introduction is the first introduction to the theme of populism. It will introduce the principal theories, definitions, models and contemporary debates. A number of global case studies will be used to illustrate the concept:
? Russian populism;
? Latin American populism;
? Italian populism;
? Peronism;
? Media populism;
? Penal populism;
? Constitutional populism.
Populism will reflect on the sociology of democratic processes and investigate the evolution of political consensus in contemporary political systems. This book will appeal to academics and postgraduate students working in the field of sociology, political sociology and politics.
Introduction. The Populist Option. 1. Preliminary Elements of the Concept of Populism. Part One: Theorist 2. Gino Germani: National-populism and Modernization 3. Edward Shils: Public Sphere and Populism in the USA. 4. Ghița Ionescu and Ernest Gellner; the Foundation of Studies on Populism 5. Margaret Canovan and the Shadow of Democracy. 6. Laclau: The Construction of the Political 7. Mény and Surel: Sovereignty, Constitution and the People. 8. The Recent Debate Part Two: Major Cases 9. Russian Populism 10. Perón and Peronism 11. Left-Turn and neo- populisms in Latin America 12. Italian Neo-populism Part Three: Other Typologies and Other Problems 13. Penal Populism 14. Cultural Populism 15. Mediapopulism 16. Constitutional Populism 17. How to Study Populism: Analytical Prospects for Social Researchs 18. Concluding remarks. Democracy and Populism: Which Perspectives?
Manuel Anselmi is an Assistant Professor of Political Sociology at University of Perugia, Italy.
