Right-Wing Populism in Latin America and Beyond

1. Introduction

Anthony W. Pereira

Part 1: Theory

2. Intellectual Imperialism and Selection Bias in the Study of Populism

Stacey Hunt

3. Popular Sovereignty, Institutionality, and the Dilemmas of Democratizing Democracy

Anthony Spanakos

4. Populisms in Power: Plural and Ambiguous

Katerina Hatzikidi

Part 2: Political Economy

5. Economic Globalization and Populism in Latin America and Beyond

Paula Rettl

6. The Political Economy and Political Psychology of Public Support for Right-Wing Populism in Comparative Perspective

Diogo Ferrari

7. Voting for Violence: The New Middle-class and Authoritarian Populist Presidents in the Philippines and Brazil

Cecilia Lero

Part 3: Institutions

8. Populism and Anti-Globalism on Twitter: Similarities of Conspiratorial Discourse and Content Diffusion On Social Networks In Brazil, Spain, Latin America, and Italy

Ana Carolina Raposo de Mello and Felipe Estre

9. "I will end everything": Brazilian far-right populism, scorched earth politics and the erasure of bureaucrats’ memories

Gabriela Lotta, Amon Barros, and Ana Diniz

10. Narendra Modi and The Police In India: National Populism, Politics of Fear, Victimization, and Cultural Policing

Christophe Jaffrelot

11. Bolsonaro’s Brazil: National Populism and The Role of The Police

Renato Sérgio de Lima

Part 4: Covid-19

12. The Hydroxychloroquine Alliance: How Far-Right Leaders and Alt-Science Preachers Came Together to Tout a Miraculous Drug

David Magalhães and Guilherme Casarões

13. Populism, the Pandemic, and the Crisis of Bolsonarismo

Leonardo Avritzer and Lúcio Rennó

14. Four-Squared Denialism: The Uses of Fake News for The Political Construction of Identity in Bolsonaro's Populist Government During the Pandemic

Vinícius de Souza Struari and Rodrigo Otávio Moretti-Pires

15. "Enfrentar vírus como homem": Bolsonaro’s Populism and Performing Hegemonic Masculinity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Théo Aiolfi and Giulia Champion

16. Conclusion

Anthony W. Pereira

Biography

Anthony Pereira is the Director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University. From 2010 to 2020 he was the founding director of the Brazil Institute at King’s College London. His books include Modern Brazil: A Very Short Introduction (2020); (with Jeff Garmany) Understanding Contemporary Brazil (Routledge, 2018); and Ditadura e Repressão (Dictatorship and Repression, 2010).

"Unlike books that reduce rightwing populism in the global south to a few scattered footnotes, Antony Pereira’s edited volume illustrates the advantages of putting Jair Bolsonaro and Latin American rightwing populism at the center of comparative analysis. Right-wing Populism in Latin American and Beyond appeals to readers interested in theoretical, normative, and political-economic debates. Using cases from Latin America, Asia, Europe, and U.S. the contributors to this volume offer novel conceptual insights focusing on the political economy of rightwing populism, its relationships with civil society, its impact on democracies, and on how and why populists politicized and mismanaged the COVID 19 epidemic."

Carlos de la Torre, editor of The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism

"This is a timely volume on right-wing populism and its current challenge to democracy. Initial chapters discuss the thorny problem of defining populism, followed by rich empirical chapters on a wide range of cases. Though centrally focused on Latin America, the volume is impressive in its broadly comparative approach, encompassing cases in Western Europe and the Philippines, as well as special attention to India and Brazil. A final empirical section presents valuable and wide-ranging perspectives on Bolsonaro’s pernicious approach to COVID politics in Brazil. A welcome contribution combining deep case knowledge with comparative insights."

Ruth Berins Collier, Heller Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

"This timely and incisive volume will be required reading for students of right wing populism and all concerned about the fate of contemporary democracies. The illuminating scholarly contributions by leading experts assembled by Anthony Pereira offer a wealth of new insights into right wing authoritarian movements in Brazil, the rest of Latin America and beyond."

Robert M. Fishman, Carlos III University, Madrid