Democracies and the Populist Challenge

Y. Meny, Y. Surel

ISBN 10: 0333970047 / ISBN 13: 9780333970041

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, GB, 2001

About this Item

Populism has become a favourite catchword for mass media and politicians faced with the challenge of protest parties or movements. It has often been equated with radical right leaders or parties. This volume offers a different perspective and underlines that populism is an ambiguous but constitutive component of democratic systems torn between their ideology (government of the people, by the people, for the people) and their actual functioning, characterised by the role of the elites and the limits put on the popular will by liberal constitutionalism.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Democracies and the Populist Challenge
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, GB
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333970047
• ISBN 13: 9780333970041
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 2002nd.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 13.97W x 1.6H x 21.59D centimeters 13.97 centimeters width by 1.6 centimeters height by 21.59 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

Populism has become a favourite catchword for mass media and politicians faced with the challenge of protest parties or movements. It has often been equated with radical right leaders or parties. This volume offers a different perspective and underlines that populism is an ambiguous but constitutive component of democratic systems torn between their ideology (government of the people, by the people, for the people) and their actual functioning, characterised by the role of the elites and the limits put on the popular will by liberal constitutionalism.

About the Author

HANS-GOERG BETZ Associate Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto MARGARET CANOVAN Professor of Political Thought, University of Keele HERBERT P. KITSCHELT Professor of Political Science, Duke University PETER MAIR Professor of Comparative Politics, Leiden University CAS MUDDE Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of Edinburgh WOLFGANG C. MÜLLER Professor of Political Science, University of Vienna YANNIS PAPADOPOULOS PAUL TAGGART Lecturer in Politics and Jean Monnet Lecturer in Contemporary European Studies, University of Sussex MARCO TARCHI Associate Professor of Political Science and Political Communication, University of Florence ALAN WARE Professor of Politics, University of Oxford