Populist Discourse in Venezuela and the United States American Unexceptionalism and Political Identity Formation /

• Main Author: Savage, Ritchie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political sociology.; Historical sociology.; Comparative politics.; Political communication.; Discourse analysis.; Political Sociology.; Historical Sociology.; Comparative Politics.; Political Communication.; Discourse Analysis.

Using the conceptual framework of populism as discourse, Ritchie Savage provides a comparative analysis of U.S. and Latin American speeches and articles covering Betancourt's Acción Democrática, Chávez, McCarthyism, and the Tea Party. In so doing, he reveals an essential structure to populis...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Negative Proof of the Discursive Model: Populism as a Conceptual and Empirical Problem
• 3. From Betancourt to Chávez: Interpreting Venezuelan Populism in Two Revolutionary Governments
• 4: From McCarthyism to the Tea Party: Interpreting Anti-Leftist Forms of U.S. Populism in Comparative Perspective
• 5. A Comparison of New Institutionalized Populism in Venezuela and the United States
• 6. Everything in History Happens: Further Problems with Populism as a Comparative-Historical Phenomenon
• 7. Conclusion. .