Populism

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Title......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 2016 – the populism ‘explosion’......Page 9 Populism panic......Page 14 2 What is populism? (and why does it seem so difficult to define?)......Page 18 The Russian Narodniks......Page 21 The farmers’ parties of the United States of America......Page 23 Latin American caudillismo......Page 25 ‘The people’ versus ‘the elites’......Page 27 Never let a good crisis go to waste......Page 30 Redemptive versus humdrum politics......Page 33 Take me to your leader......Page 35 Incivility as a weapon of politics......Page 39 Problems with populism – ahistorical and descriptive?......Page 42 Indifferent to beliefs and values?......Page 45 An alibi for the performance of elites?......Page 47 3 Why now? Explaining the populist insurgency......Page 51 Populism and economic grievance......Page 53 Populism and cultural grievance......Page 59 Economic versus cultural grievance......Page 66 The populism puzzle......Page 68 Populism and ‘democratic grievance’......Page 69 Decadence and the decline of the political class......Page 72 The rise of the citizen consumer......Page 76 Populism and the threat to democracy......Page 83 Pluralism versus monism......Page 84 Redemption versus problem-solving......Page 88 Modernity versus feudalism......Page 90 Populism and democratic renewal......Page 93 Politics as the struggle for ‘hegemony’......Page 95 From stability to crisis......Page 97 Democracy after populism......Page 99 A tale of two populisms......Page 102 5 Is populism a variety of ‘post-truth politics’?......Page 113 The truth about post-truth......Page 115 Are post-modernism and relativism to blame?......Page 117 Is expert knowledge dead?......Page 120 Has the Internet made it more difficult to separate fact from fiction?......Page 123 Truth, lies and politics: what’s new?......Page 126 Manipulating data, images and the historical record: a sordid past......Page 130 ‘Post-truth’ or unfashionable views?......Page 133 6 Conclusion – what is to be done about populism?......Page 139 Invoking ‘the people’ is not populist......Page 142 Populism is not a variety of far-right politics......Page 146 Populism is not an ideology......Page 149 Populism is not anti-democratic......Page 153 Populism does not threaten pluralism......Page 155 Populism is not the cause of the crisis......Page 159 What is to be done about populism?......Page 162 Acknowledgements......Page 168 Further reading......Page 170 Copyright......Page 172