Research Handbook on Populism

Edited by Yannis Stavrakakis, Professor of Political Discourse Analysis, School of Political Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Giorgos Katsambekis, Researcher in Comparative Politics, Institute of Political Research, National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), Greece

Contents:

Introduction: populism’s enduring relevance and the challenges ahead 1
Yannis Stavrakakis and Giorgos Katsambekis

PART I CONCEPTS
1 Populism, democracy and ‘the people’ 11
Geneviève Nootens
2 The populism–nationalism nexus 23
Michaelangelo Anastasiou and Jacopo Custodi
3 Anti-populism, meritocracy and (technocratic) elitism 35
Savvas Voutyras

PART II DIACHRONIES
4 Populist sensibilities before ‘populism’: populism’s historic predecessors 49
Federico Tarragoni
5 The Russian populism of the Narodniki: contexts, affinities and legacies 61
Yiannis Mylonas and Simona Guerra
6 Populism and anti-populism in the United States 72
Charles Postel
7 Peronism and its legacy 84
Paula Biglieri
8 Patterns in Italian populism: from the Common Man’s Front to the Five
Star Movement 95
Marcello Gisondi
9 From Poujade to Jean-Marie Le Pen to Marine Le Pen: a populist
lineage in France? 106
Annie Collovald

PART III THEORIES AND KEY THINKERS
10 Richard Hofstadter, modernization theory and the birth of a global
populism debate 118
Anton Jäger
11 Margaret Canovan, populist gadfly 131
Paris Aslanidis
12 Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and the discursive approach 142
Lasse Thomassen
13 Populism as a political strategy 154
Kurt Weyland
14 The ideational approach to populism 166
Lisa Zanotti
15 The socio-cultural approach: toward a cultural class analysis of populist
appeals 178
Linus Westheuser and Pierre Ostiguy

PART IV DISCIPLINARY ANGLES
16 Political economy 193
Simon Tunderman
17 International relations and foreign policy 204
Angelos Chryssogelos
18 Ethnography 216
Marcos Emilio Pérez
19 Populist constitutionalism 226
Akritas Kaidatzis
20 History: the moral economy perspective 239
Norbert Götz and Emilia Palonen
21 Discourse studies 251
Ruth Wodak

PART V RESEARCH AGENDAS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
22 Populism and political parties 267
Giovanni Barbieri
23 Populism and social movements 278
Donatella della Porta and Martín Portos
24 Populist leadership and charisma 291
William Mazzarella
25 Populist political communication 303
Niko Hatakka
26 Populism and emotions 314
Emmy Eklundh
27 Psychoanalytic political theorization 325
Thomás Zicman de Barros
28 Populism through surveys: personality, attitudes and behaviour 336
Patricia Rehus, Maria Tsigkou, Steven M. Van Hauwaert and
Ioannis Andreadis

PART VI COMPARISONS AND TYPOLOGIES
29 Left and right 348
María Esperanza Casullo
30 In opposition and in government 360
Giorgos Venizelos and Grigoris Markou
31 Populist democracy or populist dictatorship? 373
Paul Lucardie
32 National and transnational 385
Panos Panayotu

PART VII HOTSPOTS
33 Latin America 398
Enrico Padoan
34 Europe: North and South 410
Petar Bankov and Myrto Tsakatika
35 Central and Eastern Europe 422
Seongcheol Kim
36 Populism in Southeast Asia 433
Dakila Kim P. Yee and Nicole Curato
37 Populism in Africa 444
Sishuwa Sishuwa

PART VIII RESEARCH CHALLENGES
38 Gender, feminism and populism 457
Luciana Cadahia
39 Populism and religion 469
Konstantinos Papastathis
40 Populism and the commons 481
Alexandros Kioupkiolis
41 Colonialism and populism 494
Dani Filc
42 Digital populism 506
Paolo Gerbaudo
43 Populism, music and the arts 516
Anna Schwenck and Mario Dunkel
44 The populist hype 527
Jana Goyvaerts, Katy Brown, Aurelien Mondon, Jason Glynos and
Benjamin De Cleen
45 Diffusion and global circulation of populist discourse 540
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser and Cristóbal Sandoval
46 Experts and populism in the context of COVID-19 551
Liv Sunnercrantz

Index 563