The many faces of populism current perspectives /

• Other Authors: Wejnert, Barbara, Woods, Dwayne
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
• Series: Research in political sociology ; v. 22.
• Subjects: Political Science > Political Ideologies > General.; Political ideologies.; Political activism.; Political structure & processes.; Populism.

Populism comes in many guises. Both Berlusconis personalization of politics and the Northern Leagues anti-immigrant regionalist movement are viewed as examples of the phenomenon of populism. A type of left-wing populism embodied by Hugo Chavez swept across Latin America. Insurgent and anti-system mo...

Table of Contents:

• The many faces of populism : diverse but not disparate / Dwayne Woods
• The many faces of populism in Italy : the northern league and Berlusconism / Dwayne Woods
• The post-modern populism in Italy : the case of the five star movement / Maria Elisabetta Lanzone
• Populism in Latin American politics / Carlos de la Torre
• Agrarian populism in Poland : peasants' political identity and mobilisation from democratisation to communism (1880-1989) / Frédéric Zalewski
• Iranian populism : its vicissitudes and political impact / Manochehr Dorraj
• Populism and democracy : not the same but interconnected / Barbara Wejnert
• Epilogue : finding populism today / Barbara Wejnert.