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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

"The political tradition loosely termed 'the left' has been brought to crisis point as the twentieth century draws to a close. This cohesive and wide-ranging study charts the history of the left, from its origins in the French Revolution to the present crisis." "Willie Thompson focuses on the principal currents, including the rise and fall of Bolshevism, Leninism and Stalinism; the embrace and subsequent abandonment of Marxist rhetoric by former Soviet allies in the Third World; European social democracy; and 'actually existing socialism' in states such as China and Cuba. The impact of 'alternatives' to the mainstream - Trotskyism, Maoism and Eurocommunism - is assessed, and the potential for the New Left and postwar social forces such as feminism, environmentalism and 'identity' politics to facilitate renewal is evaluated. Thompson concludes that if the left is to play any part in addressing the unfinished agenda of the post-1900s, then it must develop a clear understanding of the historical lessons that follow from its earlier embodiments." "Willie Thompson is Senior Lecturer in History at Glasgow Caledonian University."--Jacket

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.

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.