edited by Yves Mény and Yves Surel ; with the editorial assistance of Clare Tame and Luís de Sousa.
New York :
Palgrave,
2002.
xii, 258 pages ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
The constitutive ambiguity of populism / Yves Mény and Yves Surel -- Taking politics to the people : populism as the idealogy of democracy / Margarent Canovan -- Populism, the democratic question, and contemporary governance / Yannis Papadopoulos -- Populism and the pathology of representative politics / Paul Taggart -- Populist democracy vs. party democracy / Peter Mair -- The United States : populism as political strategy / Alan Ware -- Populism Italian style / Marco Tarchi -- Populism in the French party system / Yves Surel -- Evil or the 'engine of democracy'? Populism and party competition in Austria / Wolfgang C. Muller -- Popular dissatisfaction with democracy : populism and party systems / Herbert Kitschelt -- Conditions favoring the success and failure of radical right-wing populist parties in contemporary democracies / Hans-Georg Betz -- In the name of the peasantry, the proletariat, and the people : populisms in Eastern Europe / Cas Mudde.
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Populism has become a favourite catchword for mass media and politicians. This volume offers a different perspective and underlines that populism is an ambiguous but constitutive component of democratic systems torn between their ideology and their actual functioning.