1st Edition

Populists and the Pandemic How Populists Around the World Responded to COVID-19

Edited By Nils Ringe, Lucio Rennó Copyright 2023
320 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals. The responses of some populist leaders have received much public attention, as they denied the severity of the public health crisis, denigrated experts and... Read more

1. Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to Covid-19

Nils Ringe and Lucio Rennó

2. The United States: Trump, Populism, and the Pandemic

Kenneth M. Roberts

3. Mexico: A Politically Effective Populist Pandemic Response

Nicolás de la Cerda and Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo

4. Brazil: "We Are All Going To Die One Day"

Frederico Bertholini

5. Argentina: Peronism and Inclusionary Populist Adaptation to the Pandemic

Germán Lodola and Luisina Perelmiter

6. The United Kingdom: The Pandemic and the Tale of Two Populist Parties

Tim Bale

7. Spain: Different Populist Responses with Similar (and Limited) Outcomes

Carolina Plaza-Colodro and Nicolás Miranda Olivares

8. Italy: The Diverging Strategies of the Populist Radical Right During the Pandemic

Lisa Zanotti and Carlos Meléndez

9. Poland: When Populists Must Manage Crisis Instead of Performing It

Ben Stanley

10. Hungary: Creeping Authoritarianism in the Name of Pandemic Response

Agnes Batory

11. Turkey: Governing the Unpredictable Through Market Imperative

Evren Balta and Soli Özel

12. Indonesia: From the Pandemic Crisis to Democratic Decline

Eunsook Jung

13. India: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly Consequences of India’s Pandemic Response

Saloni Bhogale and Pavithra Suryanarayan

14. The Philippines: Penal Populism and Pandemic Response

Paul D. Kenny and Ronald Holmes

15. Russia: Muddling Through Populism and the Pandemic

Anton Shirikov, Valeriia Umanets and Yoshiko Herrera

16. Nicaragua: Populist Performance and Authoritarian Practice During Covid-19

Rachel A. Schwartz and Kai M. Thaler

17. Venezuela: A Populist Legacy and Authoritarian Response

Caitlin Andrews-Lee

18. Tanzania: Narrating the Eradication of Covid-19

Dan Paget

19. South Africa: From Populist Inertia to Insurrection

Ryan Brunette and Benjamin Fogel

20. France: Balancing Respectability and Radicalization in a Pandemic

Marta Lorimer and Ethan vanderWilden

21. Germany: The Alternative for Germany in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Marcel Lewandowsky, Christoph Leonhardt and Andreas Blätte

22. Belgium: Against the Government and its Parties, (Not So Much) with the People

Judith Sijstermans and Steven M. Van Hauwaert

23. The Netherlands: Divergent Paths for the Populist Radical Right

Sarah L. de Lange

24. Conclusion

Nils Ringe, Lucio Rennó and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser

Biography

Nils Ringe is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence for Comparative Populism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Lucio Rennó is Professor of Political Science at the Universidade de Brasília, Brazil.