Unlimited

Authorized users

Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Contemporary populists in power / Alain Dieckhoff, Christophe Jaffrelot, Elise Massicard, editors.

9783030840792 (electronic bk.)
3030840794 (electronic bk.)
9783030840785
3030840786

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

©2022

English

1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations (some color).

10.1007/978-3-030-84079-2 doi

JC423 .C66 2022

320.5662

Populism is on the rise, and so are academic studies on populism. The study of populism has long focused on the way its spokespersons have behaved as an oppositional force, in Western countries in particular. While discourses and practices of populists exercising a protest function still merit attention, this volume trains the focus on populists in government. The real novelty of the past decade is that many populists are now (or have been) in power, in Europe as well as in other parts of the world, and this book intends to play a pioneering role from a geographical and analytical standpoint. Besides Europe and Latin America, where populism is well established, populists are todayor have been recentlyin office in the Middle East (Turkey, Israel), Asia (India, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), and the United States. In most of the cases, their rule has resulted in forms of authoritarianism, giving birth to a new kind of regime that combines electionswhich populists need to nurture their legitimacyand attacks against institutions in charge of checks and balances, including the judiciary. While most of the populist rulers have consolidated their power, democratic resilience has prevailed in some rare cases. Alain Dieckhoff is Director of the Center for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po, France, and CNRS Research Professor. Christophe Jaffrelot is a CNRS Research Professor at the Center for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po, France, Prof. of Indian politics and sociology at Kings College (London) and President of the French Political Science Association. Elise Massicard is a CNRS Research Professor at the Center for International studies (CERI) at Sciences Po, France. .

Includes index.

Access limited to authorized users.

Description based on print version record.

CERI series in international relations and political economy.

Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources