Research Handbook on Populism (Research Handbooks in Political Thought series)

Examining one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary politics, media and academia, the Research Handbook on Populism brings together a diverse range of academics from across the globe to provide a detailed and comprehensive overview of the developing field of populism research. This prescient Research Handbook highlights the crucial need for conceptual reflexivity, theoretical awareness, methodological pluralism and historical alertness as guiding principles in populism research. Chapters showcase cutting-edge research methods, from surveys to ethnography and from discourse studies to psychoanalytic political theorisation. Enacting diverse sensibilities, they explore a wealth of topics, such as digital populism, anti-populism, feminism, colonialism, the politics of emotions, populist constitutionalism, party politics, social movements, and relevant artistic practices. Offering rigorous comparative perspectives and highlighting promising avenues for future research, this Research Handbook deftly illustrates the dynamism of populism research. The Research Handbook on Populism will be an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers working in political theory, comparative politics and political sociology as well as those involved in populism research from across the social sciences and humanities. Providing in-depth accounts of concrete phenomena and addressing emerging challenges at a global level, it will also be of interest to professionals in journalism and a variety of national and international organisations. Front Matter Copyright Contents Contributors Advisory board Acknowledgements Introduction: populism’s enduring relevance and the challenges ahead Part I Concepts 1. Populism, democracy and ‘the people’ 2. The populism–nationalism nexus 3. Anti-populism, meritocracy and (technocratic) elitism Part II Diachronies 4. Populist sensibilities before ‘populism’: populism’s historic predecessors 5. The Russian populism of the Narodniki: contexts, affinities and legacies 6. Populism and anti-populism in the United States 7. Peronism and its legacy 8. Patterns in Italian populism: from the Common Man’s Front to the Five Star Movement 9. From Poujade to Jean-Marie Le Pen to Marine Le Pen: a populist lineage in France? Part III Theories and key thinkers 10. Richard Hofstadter, modernization theory and the birth of a global populism debate 11. Margaret Canovan, populist gadfly 12. Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and the discursive approach 13. Populism as a political strategy 14. The ideational approach to populism 15. The socio-cultural approach: toward a cultural class analysis of populist appeals Part IV Disciplinary angles 16. Political economy 17. International relations and foreign policy 18. Ethnography 19. Populist constitutionalism 20. History: the moral economy perspective 21. Discourse studies Part V Research agendas in the social sciences 22. Populism and political parties 23. Populism and social movements 24. Populist leadership and charisma 25. Populist political communication 26. Populism and emotions 27. Psychoanalytic political theorization 28. Populism through surveys: personality, attitudes and behaviour Part VI Comparisons and typologies 29. Left and right 30. In opposition and in government 31. Populist democracy or populist dictatorship? 32. National and transnational PART VII Hotspots 33. Latin America 34. Europe: North and South 35. Central and Eastern Europe 36. Populism in Southeast Asia 37. Populism in Africa PART VIII Research challenges 38. Gender, feminism and populism 39. Populism and religion 40. Populism and the commons 41. Colonialism and populism 42. Digital populism 43. Populism, music and the arts 44. The populist hype 45. Diffusion and global circulation of populist discourse 46. Experts and populism in the context of COVID-19 Index Examining one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary politics, media and academia, the Research Handbook on Populism brings together a diverse range of academics from across the globe to provide a detailed and comprehensive overview of populism research. This prescient Research Handbook highlights the crucial need for conceptual reflexivity, theoretical awareness, methodological pluralism and historical alertness as guiding principles in populism research. Chapters showcase cutting-edge research methods, from surveys to ethnography and from discourse studies to psychoanalytic political theorisation. Enacting diverse sensibilities, they explore a wealth of topics, such as digital populism, anti-populism, feminism, colonialism, the politics of emotions, populist constitutionalism, party politics, social movements, and relevant artistic practices. Offering rigorous comparative perspectives and highlighting promising avenues for future research, this Research Handbook deftly illustrates the dynamism of populism research as it is currently unfolding. The Research Handbook on Populism will be an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers working in political theory, comparative politics and political sociology as well as those involved in populism research from across the social sciences and humanities. Providing in-depth accounts of concrete phenomena and addressing emerging challenges at a global level, it will also be of interest to professionals in journalism and a variety of national and international organisations. The Research Handbooks in Political Thought series provides a comprehensive state-of-the art overview of contemporary research and thought in all areas of political philosophy and political theory. Combining theoretical, methodological and comparative perspectives, the series offers prestigious high quality works of lasting significance. Under the guidance of the Series Editor, Professor John Kane at Griffith University, these Handbooks will be edited by leading scholars in their respective fields and will comprise specially commissioned contributions from distinguished academics. The emphasis is on the most important concepts and research in each field with the aim of expanding debate and indicating likely research agendas for the future. By exploring political, economic, legal and philosophical dimensions, this series acts as a platform for interdisciplinary studies and an essential reference point for all academics, researchers and students of political thought.