The Populist Tradition A Critical-Historic Approach

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction. Déborah Cohen and Federico Tarragoni

Part I. Populism: A Concept to be Redefined

Chap. 1. Damiano Palano : The Place of the People: Populism Beyond "Democratic Elitism”

Chap. 2. Annie Collovald : Myth, Screen and Misunderstanding: Populism or the Blind Spots of an Unfounded Notion

Chap. 3. Claudio Sergio Ingerflom : Toward a Reappraisal of Russian Populism (1819-1881)

Chap. 4. Federico Tarragoni : The Women’s People. On Historical Populism and Gender

Part II. Populism as a Movement and Populism as a Regime

Chap. 5. Korine Amacher : Narodnichestvo: The Life of an Elusive Term

Chap. 6. Charles Postel : American Populism and the Practice of Democracy

Chap. 7. Gerardo Aboy Carlés : The Problem of Populism in Latin America. Political Representation and Democratic Communities

Chap. 8. Pierre Ostiguy : Peronism as Prototypical Populism : Fleshing out the People

Part III. A European Tradition: Inventing the People’s Sovereignty in Representative Regimes

Chap. 9. Christopher Hamel : Making the Voice of the People Heard: the Right to Instruct Representatives in Pre-Wilkes Great-Britain

Chap. 10. Christophe Le Digol : Representing the Nation. The Imperative Mandate and Deliberation at the Geginning of the French Revolution

Chap. 11. Déborah Cohen: French Revolution Populists and Populisms : How the Sovereignty of the People is Shaped for Robespierre and the Enragés

Chap. 12. Anne de Mathan and Laura Mason : Gracchus Babeuf (1760-1797), A Project for Popular Democracy

Chap. 13. Ludovic Frobert : The Moral Economy of the People by François-Joseph L’Ange

Chap. 14. François Robinet: Populism as Radical Republicanism: a Comparative Approach of Boulangism and Blasquism at the End of the 19th Century (France, Spain)

Chap. 15. Salvatore Cingari : Antonio Gramsci and the “Going to the People”

Chap. 16. Catherine Vigier : Popular Revolution and Populism in Twentieth Century Ireland

Chap. 17. Paolo Gerbaudo: The People’s Gathering: the 2010’s Movements of the Squares and the Popular Assemblies as Populist Ritual

Chap. 18. Arthur Borriello : When the Wave Recedes: Two Routes out of Southern Europe’s Populist Moment

Chap. 19. Mark Warren : Representing the People : Democratic Responses to Populism

Biography

Déborah Cohen is Senior Lecturer of Early-Modern French History at Rouen University, France.  She is a specialist in the popular history of France, covering the modern period and the Revolution. She works on the forms of political participation by the dominated classes and has just completed a project on civic denunciation during the French Revolution, as a form of surveillance of possible abuses and excesses by governments.

Federico Tarragoni is Professor of Political Sociology at Caen University, France and Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He is a leading specialist in populism, on which he has introduced an innovative socio-historical approach. He also works on contemporary democratic activism in square-occupying movements (Indignados, Occupy Wall Street, Nuit debout, Aganaktisménoi). He received the Schneider Aguirre Basualdo Prize in Social Sciences from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris and was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University Paris Cité.