Research Handbook on Populism

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Advisory board
Acknowledgements
Introduction: populism’s enduring relevance and the challenges ahead
Part I Concepts
1. Populism, democracy and ‘the people’
2. The populism–nationalism nexus
3. Anti-populism, meritocracy and (technocratic) elitism
Part II Diachronies
4. Populist sensibilities before ‘populism’: populism’s historic predecessors
5. The Russian populism of the Narodniki: contexts, affinities and legacies
6. Populism and anti-populism in the United States
7. Peronism and its legacy
8. Patterns in Italian populism: from the Common Man’s Front to the Five Star Movement
9. From Poujade to Jean-Marie Le Pen to Marine Le Pen: a populist lineage in France?
Part III Theories and key thinkers
10. Richard Hofstadter, modernization theory and the birth of a global populism debate
11. Margaret Canovan, populist gadfly
12. Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and the discursive approach
13. Populism as a political strategy
14. The ideational approach to populism
15. The socio-cultural approach: toward a cultural class analysis of populist appeals
Part IV Disciplinary angles
16. Political economy
17. International relations and foreign policy
18. Ethnography
19. Populist constitutionalism
20. History: the moral economy perspective
21. Discourse studies
Part V Research agendas in the social sciences
22. Populism and political parties
23. Populism and social movements
24. Populist leadership and charisma
25. Populist political communication
26. Populism and emotions
27. Psychoanalytic political theorization
28. Populism through surveys: personality, attitudes and behaviour
Part VI Comparisons and typologies
29. Left and right
30. In opposition and in government
31. Populist democracy or populist dictatorship?
32. National and transnational
PART VII Hotspots
33. Latin America
34. Europe: North and South
35. Central and Eastern Europe
36. Populism in Southeast Asia
37. Populism in Africa
PART VIII Research challenges
38. Gender, feminism and populism
39. Populism and religion
40. Populism and the commons
41. Colonialism and populism
42. Digital populism
43. Populism, music and the arts
44. The populist hype
45. Diffusion and global circulation of populist discourse
46. Experts and populism in the context of COVID-19
Index