1st Edition
Mapping Populism Approaches and Methods
This collection, which can serve as an introduction to the field of populism, provides an array of interdisciplinary approaches to populist mobilizations, theories, meanings, and effects. In so doing, it rejects essentialized ideas regarding what populism is or is not. Rather, it explores the political, social, and economic conditions that are conducive for the emergence of movements labelled populist, the rationalities and affective tenor of those movements, the political issues pertaining to the relationship between populists and elites, and the relationship between populist groups and political pluralism. Grappling with accord and discord in assumptions and methodologies, the book will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science, communication and cultural studies interested in populism, social movements, citizenship, and democracy.
Introduction
Part 1: Explaining Populism
1. Explaining Populism Introduction
2. Populism & Citizenship
Matthew Dean Hindman
3. From Personal Opinion to Social Fact
Marco Garrido
4. The People and the Public
Jack Z. Bratich
Part 2: Populism and Pluralism
5. Populism and Pluralism Introduction
6. Democratic Populism as Constructive Nonviolence
Harry C. Boyte
7. Lessons from the Original Rainbow Coalition
Michael Illuzzi
8. Populism, Pluralism, and the Ordinary
Benjamin McKean
Part 3: Populism and Its Conditions of Possibility
9. Populism and Its Conditions of Possibility Introduction
10. Does Globalization Produce Populist Parties? A Cross-National Analysis
Andrew Davis and Albert J. Bergesen
11. Populism, Monopoly, and the Urban Liberal-Rural Populist Coalition
Jeffrey H. Bloodworth
12. Farming Failure: The Origins of Rural Trumpism, 1950-2016
Benjamin Davison
13. Austerity and Ethno-nationalism
Ned Crowley
14. Populism and War-making
Dylan Baun
Part 4: Between "the People" and Elites
15. Between "the People" and Elites People Introduction
16. The Social Psychology of Populism
Paris Aslanidis
17. Populist Corruption Talk
Robert G. Boatright
18. Populism, Democracy, and the Ukrainian Uprisings of the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan
Barbara Wejnert
19. Twenty-First Century American Populist movements
David S. Meyer
20. Crisis Government: The Populist as Plebeian Dictator
Camila Vergara
Part 5: Issues and Methodologies
21. Issues and Methodologies Introduction
22. Political Theory and Its Problem with Populism
Chris Barker
23. New Directions in Quantitative Measures of Populism
Matthew Bergman
24. Populism from the Bottom Up
Rachel Meade
Conclusion: Emerging Issue and Future Directions
Biography
Amit Ron is Associate Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University, U.S.A. His research focuses around two central themes: the political and normative dimensions of the history of political economy, and the democratic theory of the public sphere.
Majia Nadesan is Professor of Communication Studies at Arizona State University, U.S.A. She studies the political logics shaping the government of life, with particular emphasis on the constitution and distribution of risk. Her research has emphasized the government of autism, ability/disability, childhood, democracy, and most recently financial and environmental crises.
