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Book SynopsisPopulism comes in many guises. Both Berlusconi's personalization of politics and the Northern League's antiimmigrant regionalist movement are viewed as examples of the phenomenon of populism. A type of leftwing populism embodied by Hugo Chavez swept across Latin America. Insurgent and antisystem movements and parties in places as different as the Netherlands, India, Norway, Thailand, Russia and the United States have experienced what have been labeled populists movements. Such varied manifestations beg the question: what is populism? The objective of this edited volume is to provide an answer by examining "the many faces of populism." The unifying element across the different explorations of the phenomenon of populism is that there is a shared genus that allows for a typology of the different faces of populism and a demarcation of what is not a form of populism.
Table of ContentsThe Many Faces of Populism in Italy: The Northern League and Berlusconism. The Many Faces of Populism: Diverse but not Disparate. The “Post-Modern” Populism in Italy: The Case of the Five Star Movement. Populism in Latin American Politics. Agrarian Populism in Poland: Peasants’ Political Identity and Mobilisation from Democratisation to Communism (1880–1989). Iranian Populism: Its Vicissitudes and Political Impact. Populism and Democracy: Not the Same but Interconnected. Epilogue: Finding Populism Today. Editorial Advisory Board. The many faces of populism: Current perspectives. List of Contributors. Research in Political Sociology. The many faces of populism: Current perspectives. Copyright page. The Many Faces of Populism in Italy: The Northern League and Berlusconism. The Many Faces of Populism: Diverse but not Disparate. The “Post-Modern” Populism in Italy: The Case of the Five Star Movement. Populism in Latin American Politics. Agrarian Populism in Poland: Peasants’ Political Identity and Mobilisation from Democratisation to Communism (1880–1989). Iranian Populism: Its Vicissitudes and Political Impact. Populism and Democracy: Not the Same but Interconnected. Epilogue: Finding Populism Today. Editorial Advisory Board. The many faces of populism: Current perspectives. List of Contributors. Research in Political Sociology. The many faces of populism: Current perspectives. Copyright page.
