Populism and Key Concepts in Social and Political Theory.

• Superior document: Global Populisms Series ; v.4
• Author: de la Torre, Carlos.
• TeilnehmendeR: Mazzoleni, Oscar.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Global Populisms Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 pages)

"This volume aims to generate a dialogue between scholarship on populism and social and political theory. It focuses on citizenship, class, gender, cleavages, sovereignty, accountability, participation, leadership, and parties. The volume explores how classical and current theorists developed t...

Table of Contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Toward Populism as a Dialogical Perspective
• 1 A Populist Sub- field
• 2 The Aim of This Book
• 3 The Chapters
• 4 Between Reductionism and Complexity
• References
• Part 1 Society and Citizens
• Chapter 1 Populism and Citizenship: Do Populisms Shape a Sui Generis Type of Citizenship?
• 1 Citizenship as Part of a Populist Equation
• 2 Citizenship: Historical Development and Models
• 3 Strategies of Representation and Participation
• 4 The Interface of Market Access, Political Membership, and Public Identities
• 5 The Emotional Tonality of Populist Citizenship
• 6 The Transnational Overflow of Citizenship
• 7 Concluding Remarks
• References
• Chapter 2 Gender Contradictions in the Democratic Imaginary: The Populist Response
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Gender in Populism Research
• 3 The Interplay between Populism and Gender: Testing the Limits of Inclusionary Populism
• 4 A Gender Reading of Democratic History and Populism
• 4.1 The Male People and the Feminine Elite
• 4.2 The Masculine People and the Feminine Crowd
• 4.3 The Masculinized Leader and the Oscillating Gender Status of the People
• 5 The Populist Promise and the Gender Transformation of the People
• 6 Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Masculinity
• 7 Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 3 Populism and Social Class: Constituting "the People" and Cleaving the Political Field
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Class, Social Heterogeneity, and the Constitution of "the People"
• 3 Populist Articulations of "the People"
• 4 Neoliberalism and Class Politics: (De)Constructing the Populist Zeitgeist
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Part 2 Structures and Processes
• Chapter 4 Cleavage Theory and Populism: Rediscovering a Forgotten Cleavage?.
• 1 Revisiting Cleavage Theory
• 2 Starting from Lipset and Rokkan
• 3 Cleavage Theory and Populism: Two Hypotheses
• 4 The Missing Cleavage
• 5 The Continuity of the Reactionary Tradition
• 6 Is There Populism on the Left Too?
• 7 Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 5 Sovereignty and Populism
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Our Approach to Populism
• 3 Sovereignty, Sovereignism and Their Relationship with Populism
• 3.1 Sovereignism: Instrumentalizing Sovereignty
• 3.2 The Role of Sovereignty in Populism Research
• 3.2.1 Populism, Popular Sovereignty, and Change Agency
• 3.2.2 Populism and National Sovereignty
• 3.2.3 Populism and Economic Sovereignty
• 4 What Can Be Learned from How Scholarship on Populism Addresses Sovereignty?
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 6 Populism and Accountability
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Liberal Model: Accountability as Limited Government
• 3 The Populist Model: Accountability as Unlimited Elected Government
• 4 Populism, Elections, and Accountability
• 5 Populism, Liberalism, and Democratic Accountability
• References
• Part 3 Actors
• Chapter 7 Populism and Participation
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Populism: a Contested Concept
• 3 Participation: A Multifaceted Concept
• 4 Three Research Paths on the Link between Populism and Participation
• 4.1 Do Populist Actors Push for a Greater Citizens' Participation?
• 4.2 Populist Supporters' Patterns of Participation
• 4.3 Does Populism Increase Electoral Turnout?
• 5 Conclusions
• 5.1 If Populism Fosters Participation, Which Kind of Participation?
• 5.2 Populist Actors Favouring Participation: Is it Just Rhetoric?
• 5.3 What Is the Meaning of the Act of Participating?
• References
• Chapter 8 Populist Leadership
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Is the Leader Central to Populism?
• 2.1 Creating Enemies
• 2.2 Populism's Pars Pro Toto Dynamic.
• 2.3 Populist Leadership
• 2.4 Differentiating Populisms
• 3 Populist Charismatic Leadership
• 3.1 The Redemptive Mission of the Leader
• 3.2 Charisma and Myths
• 3.3 Mass Meetings and the Charisma of Rhetoric
• 3.4 The Body of the Leader
• 3.5 Populist Identities
• 4 Leadership under Audience Democracies
• 5 Conclusions
• References
• Chapter 9 Labelling Parties as Populist? A Critical Appraisal and an Alternative Approach
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Between Labelling and Self-labelling
• 3 Essentialist Conceptualization
• 4 Where Does the Populist Label Come From?
• 5 Party Complexity
• 6 An Alternative Approach
• 7 A Conceptual Approximation
• 8 Conclusion
• References
• Index
• Back Cover.