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Democracies and the Populist Challenge

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Yves Mény

    1. European University Institute, Florence, Italy

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  2. Yves Surel

    1. IEP, Grenoble, France
      Centre d’étude de la vie politique française, Sciences Po, Paris, France

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Constitutive Ambiguity of Populism

    1. The Constitutive Ambiguity of Populism

      • Yves Mény, Yves Surel
      Pages 1-21

  3. Making Sense of Populism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Taking Politics to the People:Populism as the Ideology of Democracy

      • Margaret Canovan
      Pages 25-44

    3. Populism, the Democratic Question, and Contemporary Governance

      • Yannis Papadopoulos
      Pages 45-61

    4. Populism and the Pathology of Representative Politics

      • Paul Taggart
      Pages 62-80

    5. Populist Democracy vs Party Democracy

      • Peter Mair
      Pages 81-98

  4. Identifying Country Variations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. The United States: Populism as Political Strategy

      • Alan Ware
      Pages 101-119

    3. Populism Italian Style

      • Marco Tarchi
      Pages 120-138

    4. Populism in the French Party System

      • Yves Surel
      Pages 139-154

    5. Evil or the ‘Engine of Democracy’?Populism and Party Competition in Austria

      • Wolfgang C. Müller
      Pages 155-175

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 233-258
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • European University Institute, Florence, Italy

    Yves Mény

  • IEP, Grenoble, France

    Yves Surel

  • Centre d’étude de la vie politique française, Sciences Po, Paris, France

    Yves Surel

About the editors

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

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