The Promise and Perils of Populism:Global Perspective

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction: Power to the People? Populism, Insurrections, Democratization Part I: The People and Populism 1. Political Theology and Populism 2. Power to Whom? The People between Procedure and Populism 3. The People as Representation and Event 4. Insurgencies Don’t Have a Plan—They Are the Plan: Political Performatives and Vanishing Mediators 5. Populism, Political Mobilizations, and Crises of Political Representation 6. Populist Mobilization: A New Theoretical Approach to Populism 7. Explaining the Emergence of Populism in Europe and the Americas Part II: Global Populism 8. “Free the People”: The Search for “True Democracy” in Western Europe’s Far-Right Political Culture 9. A New American Populist Coalition? The Relationship between the Tea Party and the Far Right 10. Contemporary Populism and “The People” in the Asia-Pacific Region: Thaksin Shinawatra and Pauline Hanson 11. Varieties of African Populism in Comparative Perspective 12. The Contested Meanings of Insurrections, the Sovereign People, and Democracy in Ecuador, Venezuela, and Bolivia 13. Popular Power in the Discourse of Hugo Chávez’s Government (1999–2013) 14. “El Pueblo Boliviano, de Composición Plural”: A Look at Plurinationalism in Bolivia Conclusion: Some Further Thoughts on Populism Acknowledgments Contributors Index