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Cover -- Introduction -- Living in a Populist Era -- Surveying the Phenomenon: Precursors and Regional Variation -- Origins -- Nativism and Rural Populism: The United States and Elsewhere -- Presidentialism and Social Mobilisation: Latin American Populism -- The Western European Populist Right: From Protest Politics to Migration and Identity -- Identity Politics in Post-transition Societies: Populism in Central and Eastern Europe -- Protest Movements and Mediterranean Populism -- Variation in the Manifestation and Perception of Populism -- Populism as a Theoretical Problem: Towards a New Conceptualisation? -- Populism as an Empirical Phenomenon -- Empirical Challenges and New Research Agendas -- Populism and the Communication Dimension -- Final Note -- References -- PART I: Defining and Analysing the Concept -- CHAPTER 1: POPULISM: A HISTORY OF THE CONCEPT -- Conjuncture and Controversy in Politics and Science -- Lexical History of the Concept -- The Founding Forms of Populism -- Transnational and Transdisciplinary Expansion -- Populism as a Strategy or Ideology? -- Conclusions -- References -- CHAPTER 2: POPULISM AND POLITICAL REPRESENTATION -- Populist Parties, Representation and the Crisis of Representation -- Representing the People: Which People? -- Representing the Populist Parties -- References -- CHAPTER 3: CONCEPTUALISING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPULISM AND THE RADICAL RIGHT -- Introduction -- Populism and the Radical Right: A Historical Perspective -- From the Extreme Right to the Contemporary Radical Right -- From Populism in the World to "Neo" Populism in Europe -- Populism: More than a Thin Ideology? -- A New Party Family: Populist, Radical and Right-wing -- Terminology, Ideology, Concepts -- Economic Protectionism: Class Politics for 'Modernisation Losers' -- Cultural protectionism: nationalism and Islamophobia

This book reveals aspects of the rise and fall of the European and Iranian Left, their conceptualization of Marxism and ideological formations. Questions regarding the Left and Marxism within two seemingly different economic, political and intellectual and cultural contexts require comprehensive comparative histories of the two settings. This project investigates the intellectual transformations, which the European and Iranian Left have experienced after the Russian Revolution to the present. It examines the impacts of these transformations on their conceptualizations of history and revolution, domination and ideology, emancipation and universality, democracy and equality. The monograph will appeal to researchers, scholars and graduate students in the fields of political science, Middle Eastern and European studies, political history and comparative politics. Yadullah Shahibzadeh is Author of The Iranian Political Language: From the late Nineteenth Century to the Present (2015), and Islamism and Post-Islamism in Iran: An Intellectual History (2016). Previously, he taught at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Seeking Rights from the Left offers a unique comparative assessment of left-leaning Latin American governments by examining their engagement with feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues. Focusing on the "Pink Tide" in eight national cases—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela—the contributors evaluate how the Left addressed gender- and sexuality-based rights through the state. Most of these governments improved the basic conditions of poor women and their families. Many significantly advanced women's representation in national legislatures. Some legalized same-sex relationships and enabled their citizens to claim their own gender identity. They also opened opportunities for feminist and LGBT movements to press forward their demands. But at the same time, these governments have largely relied on heteropatriarchal relations of power, ignoring or rejecting the more challenging elements of a social agenda and engaging in strategic trade-offs among gender and sexual rights. Moreover, the comparative examination of such rights arenas reveals that the Left's more general political and economic projects have been profoundly, if at times unintentionally, informed by traditional understandings of gender and sexuality.

Comparison table of political theories -- Anarchism -- Capitalism -- Communism -- Conservatism -- Fascism -- Federalism -- Feudalism -- Imperialism -- Liberalism -- Libertarianism -- Marxism -- Nationalism -- Pacifism -- Patron-client systems -- Populism -- Republicanism -- Socialism -- Totalitarianism -- Utopianism.