Populism and Key Concepts in Social and Political Theory (Global Populisms)

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 these categories, how they were used by scholars of populism, and what populism tells us about their heuristic advantages and limitations. The authors of this book have studied populism in Europe, the US, and Latin America from distinct perspectives. The chapters thus focus on experiences in both the Global North and South. Contributors are: Cecilia Biancalana, Paula Diehl, Reinhard Heinisch, Klaudia Koxha, Alfio Mastropaolo, Oscar Mazzoleni, Enrique Peruzzotti, Kenneth M. Roberts, Luis Roniger, and Carlos de la Torre. Populism and Key Concepts in Social and Political Theory is now available in paperback for individual customers 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 "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 these categories, how they were used by scholars of populism, and what populism tells us about their heuristic advantages and limitations. The authors of this book have studied populism in Europe, the US, and Latin America from distinct perspectives. The chapters thus focus on experiences in both the Global North and South. Contributors are: Cecilia Biancalana, Paula Diehl, Reinhard Heinisch, Klaudia Koxha, Alfio Mastropaolo, Oscar Mazzoleni, Enrique Peruzzotti, Kenneth M. Roberts, Luis Roniger, and Carlos de la Torre"-- Provided by publisher