Crises and popular dissent : the divided west

The first two decades of the new millennium brought with it a chain of crises and reaction headlined by the plane-bombing of New York's Trade Center twin towers, the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent austerity, and latterly Brexit, the rise and fall (for now) of Donald Trump, including t...

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Main Author O'Donnell, Mike (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781800433649
DOI10.1108/9781800433625
Physical Description1 online resource (207 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The crisis of liberal hegemony and the populist challenge: Terms and context
  • Chapter 2. Populism, an Introduction and the bigger picture
  • Chapter 3. Liberalism: 'a house divided against itself...'
  • Chapter 4. Brexit and the 2019 election in Britain, Trump 2016: The nationalist turn
  • Chapter 5. Populism, progressivism and social movements in the United States. Trump, Sanders, and Biden
  • Chapter 6. Europe: Empire and immigration. Liberalism under question
  • Chapter 7. Populism, social movements, and democratic equality in Britain.
  • Chapter 8. Radical democracy: The way forward
  • Chapter 9. Social and political implications of planetary crisis and Covid-19
  • Chapter 10. Conclusion: Values and priorities in a reduced world.