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A Critical Review of Recent Literature on Populism
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Abstract This is a review article of the following five recent studies on populism: 1) Ruth Wodak: The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean (Sage, 2015); 2) Benjamin Moffitt: The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style and Representation (Stanford University Press, 2016); ... view more
This is a review article of the following five recent studies on populism: 1) Ruth Wodak: The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean (Sage, 2015); 2) Benjamin Moffitt: The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style and Representation (Stanford University Press, 2016); 3) Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser: Populism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017); 4) Jan-Werner Müller: What is Populism? (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016); 5) John B. Judis: The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics (Columbia Global Reports, 2016). The review argues for a return to early Frankfurt School Critical Theory to address some of the shortcomings of these studies.... view less
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 177-186
Journal
Politics and Governance, 5 (2017) 4
Issue topic
Populism and the Remaking of (Il)Liberal Democracy in Europe
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed