1st Edition

New Perspectives on Populism

Edited By Jeffrey Friedman Copyright 2023
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

Populism has taken the world by storm—but what is it? In this volume, twelve political scientists and political theorists approach this question from a variety of new perspectives, empirical and theoretic, covering populism around the world. In addition to chapters on populism in Eastern Europe and Britain, six authors analyse populism in the United States, treating it, variously, as a reaction... Read more

1. Can the EU Stop Eastern Europe’s Illiberal Turn?

Hilary Appel

2. Populism and Presidential Representation

Jeremy D. Bailey

3. Populism in America: Christopher Lasch, bell hooks, and the Persistence of Democratic Possibility

Will Barndt

4. The Plague of Bannonism

Ronald Beiner

5. Populists as Technocrats

Jeffrey Friedman

6. Liberal Democracy, National Identity Boundaries, and Populist Entry Points

Sara Wallace Goodman

7. Brexit, Positional Populism, and the Declining Appeal of Valence Politics

Colin Hay and Cyril Benoît

8. Trump: New Populist or Old Democrat?

Stephanie Muravchik and Jon A. Shields

9. The Border Wall as a Populist Challenge

Paulina Ochoa Espejo

10. Of Scribes and Tribes: Progressive Politics and the Populist Challenge

Bernard Yack

Biography

Jeffrey Friedman, the Editor of Critical Review, is a visiting scholar in the Social Studies program at Harvard University, USA. He has taught political theory at Barnard College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Yale University, and is the author of Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy (2019).