Political Populism: A Handbook

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