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Book SynopsisPolitics and Religion in the White South examines the powerful ways in which religious considerations have shaped American political discourse.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Power to the People? Populism, Insurrections, Democratization Political Theology and Populism Power to Whom? The People between procedure and Populism The people: as representation and event? Insurgencies Don't Have a Plan--They Are the Plan: Political Performatives and Vanishing Mediators Populism, Political Mobilizations, and Crises of Political Representation Populist Mobilization: A New Theoretical Approach to Populism Explaining the (Re) Emergence of populism in Europe and the Americas "Free the People": The Search for "True Democracy in Western Europe Far-Right Political Culture The Tea Party and the Far Right: Fellow Travelers? Populism & the People in the Asia Pacific: Thaksin Shinawatra & Pauline Hanson Varieties of African Populism in Comparative Perspective The Contested Meanings of Insurrections, the Sovereign People, and Democracy in Ecuador, Venezuela, and Bolivia Popular Power in the Discourse of Hugo Chávez's Government (1999-2013) "El Pueblo Boliviano, de Composición Plural": A Look at Pluriculturalism in Bolivia Some Concluding Thoughts on Populism
