Democracies and the Populist Challenge

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figure......Page 9
Foreword......Page 10
Notes on the Contributors......Page 11
1 The Constitutive Ambiguity of Populism......Page 14
Part I Making Sense of Populism......Page 36
2 Taking Politics to the People: Populism as the Ideology of Democracy......Page 38
3 Populism, the Democratic Question, and Contemporary Governance......Page 58
4 Populism and the Pathology of Representative Politics......Page 75
5 Populist Democracy vs Party Democracy......Page 94
Part II Identifying Country Variations......Page 112
6 The United States: Populism as Political Strategy......Page 114
7 Populism Italian Style......Page 133
8 Populism in the French Party System......Page 152
9 Evil or the ‘Engine of Democracy’? Populism and Party Competition in Austria......Page 168
Part III Comparing National Cases......Page 190
10 Popular Dissatisfaction with Democracy: Populism and Party Systems......Page 192
11 Conditions Favouring the Success and Failure of Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Contemporary Democracies......Page 210
12 In the Name of the Peasantry, the Proletariat, and the People: Populisms in Eastern Europe......Page 227
Bibliography......Page 246
Index......Page 263