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oapen-20.500.12657-572682022-07-08T03:03:49Z Populists and the Pandemic Ringe, Nils Rennó, Lucio Comparative politics;Political parties bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPB Comparative politics bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPL Political parties Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals. The responses of some populist leaders have received much public attention, as they denied the severity of the public health crisis, denigrated experts and data, looked for scapegoats, encouraged protests, questioned the legitimacy of liberal institutions, spread false information, and fueled conspiracies. But how widespread are those particular reactions? How much variation is there? What explains the variation that does exist? This volume considers these questions through critical analysis of countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, by leading experts with deep knowledge of their respective cases. Some chapters focus on populist parties, others on charismatic populist leaders. Some countries examined are democracies, others autocracies. Some populists are left wing, others right wing. Some populists are in government, others in opposition. This variation allows for a panoramic consideration of factors that systematically influence or mediate populist responses to the pandemic. The book thus makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the intersection between two of the most pressing social and political challenges of our time. The book will be of interest to all those researching populism, extremism, and political parties and those more broadly interested in political science, public policy, sociology, communications, and economics. 2022-07-07T12:06:28Z 2022-07-07T12:06:28Z 2023 book 9781032051925 9781032051956 9781000634877 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57268 eng Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000634877.pdf http://www.routledge.com Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003197614 10.4324/9781003197614 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781032051925 9781032051956 9781000634877 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge 321 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals.
The responses of some populist leaders have received much public attention, as they denied the severity of the public health crisis, denigrated experts and data, looked for scapegoats, encouraged protests, questioned the legitimacy of liberal institutions, spread false information, and fueled conspiracies. But how widespread are those particular reactions? How much variation is there? What explains the variation that does exist? This volume considers these questions through critical analysis of countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, by leading experts with deep knowledge of their respective cases. Some chapters focus on populist parties, others on charismatic populist leaders. Some countries examined are democracies, others autocracies. Some populists are left wing, others right wing. Some populists are in government, others in opposition. This variation allows for a panoramic consideration of factors that systematically influence or mediate populist responses to the pandemic. The book thus makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the intersection between two of the most pressing social and political challenges of our time.
The book will be of interest to all those researching populism, extremism, and political parties and those more broadly interested in political science, public policy, sociology, communications, and economics.
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