Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- What Is Populism? -- Case Selection -- Research Methodology -- Between Movements and the State, the Rational and the Irrational -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Negative Proof of the Discursive Model: Populism as a Conceptual and Empirical Problem -- Introduction -- Dislocation and Terrain -- Epistemological Contours -- Populism and Latin America -- Populism in the United States -- Populism in Western Europe and Other Comparisons -- Laclau -- Discourse Theory, the Unconscious, and Social Movements -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: From Betancourt to Chávez: Interpreting Venezuelan Populism in Two Revolutionary Governments -- Introduction -- Populist Discourse During the Trienio Period of AD Rule -- The Populist Discourse of Chávez and the Chavista Movement -- Antonymy, Fantasy, and Collective Memory -- Further Comparisons Between Trienio AD and Chávez in Historical Context -- Conclusion: The Royal Road of Populism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Anti-Leftist Populism in McCarthyism and the Tea Party -- Introduction -- McCarthyism in the Populism Literature -- The Tea Party in the Media -- Overcoming the Conceptual Dilemma of Populism -- Discursive Applications -- Internal and External Threats -- The Big Différance -- Populism as the Political -- New Institutionalized Populism in Comparative Perspective -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Comparing Populism in Venezuela and the United States -- Introduction -- Betancourt and AD -- McCarthyism -- Chávez and the Chavistas -- The Tea Party -- Institutionalization -- The Wedding of Clear Discourse and Clear Policy -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Everything in History Happens: Further Problems with Populism as a Comparative-Historical Phenomenon -- Bibliography
In: Palgrave pivot
Problem melden