The many faces of populism current perspectives

Populism comes in many guises. Both Berlusconis personalization of politics and the Northern Leagues anti-immigrant regionalist movement are viewed as examples of the phenomenon of populism. A type of left-wing populism embodied by Hugo Chavez swept across Latin America. Insurgent and anti-system mo...

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Other Authors Wejnert, Barbara, Woods, Dwayne
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
SeriesResearch in political sociology ; v. 22.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781783502578
ISSN0895-9935 ;
DOI10.1108/S0895-9935201422
Physical Description1 online resource (172 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • The many faces of populism : diverse but not disparate / Dwayne Woods
  • The many faces of populism in Italy : the northern league and Berlusconism / Dwayne Woods
  • The post-modern populism in Italy : the case of the five star movement / Maria Elisabetta Lanzone
  • Populism in Latin American politics / Carlos de la Torre
  • Agrarian populism in Poland : peasants' political identity and mobilisation from democratisation to communism (1880-1989) / Frédéric Zalewski
  • Iranian populism : its vicissitudes and political impact / Manochehr Dorraj
  • Populism and democracy : not the same but interconnected / Barbara Wejnert
  • Epilogue : finding populism today / Barbara Wejnert.