Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781139422192
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Content:
Cover; Populism in Europe and the Americas; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributor s; Preface; 1 Populism and (liberal) democracy: a framework for analysis; Introduction; 1.1 Defining populism; 1.1.1 A brief conceptual history of the term populism; 1.1.2 Towards a minimal definition of populism; 1.2 Defining democracy; 1.2.1 Democracy; 1.2.2 Liberal democracy; 1.2.3 Radical democracy; 1.3 Populism and democracy: friend and foe; 1.4 Populist effects on the quality of democracy: corrective and threat; 1.4.1 Positive effects; 1.4.2 Negative effects
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1.5 Which circumstances determine the effects of populism?Conclusions; 2 Populist parties in Belgium: a case of hegemonic liberal democracy?; Introduction; 2.1 Populist parties in Belgium; 2.2. The populism of the VB; 2.3 The VB's relationship to liberal democracy; 2.4 The effects of the rise of the VB at the political level; 2.5 The effect of the rise of the VB at the societal level; Conclusion; 3 Populism and democracy in Canada's Reform Party; Introduction; 3.1 The Reform Party in a new party system; 3.2 Populist themes in the Reform Party; 3.3 Populism in Reform's successors
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3.4 Reform's populism and democracy: Testing hypothesesConclusion; 4 The Czech Republicans 1990-1998: a populist outsider in a consolidating democracy; Introduction; 4.1 The rise and fall of the SPR-RSC; 4.2 The SPR-RSC as a populist radical right party; 4.2.1 'Ordinary people' versus corrupt (crypto-) communist elites; 4.2.2 Moral politics; 4.2.3 Defending the national community; 4.2.4 The Republicans' understanding of democracy; 4.3 The Republicans and Czech democracy; 4.3.1 Positive effects on democracy?; 4.3.2 Negative effects?; 4.3.3 The Republicans' outsider populism: Causes and context
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4.4 Legacies of the SPR-RSCConclusions; 5 "To hell with your corrupt institutions!": AMLO and populism in Mexico; Introduction; 5.1 The 2006 presidential campaign: "For the Good of All - the Poor First"; 5.2 Populism in power: Andrés Manuel López Obrador as mayor of Mexico City; 5.3 López Obrador and the PRD: Leftist populism in Mexico; 5.4 Lasting effects?; Conclusion; Appendix: Elaboration of the Populist Rubric; 6 Populism in government: of Austria (2000-2007); Introduction; 6.1 The early history of the FPÖ; 6.2 Party ideology, vote- and office-seeking strategies
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6.3 The ÖVP-FPÖ coalition of 2000-2003 (cabinet Schüssel I)6.3.1 History; 6.3.2 Positive effects; 6.3.3 Negative effects; 6.4 The ÖVP-FPÖ/BZÖ coalition of 2003-2007 (cabinet Schüssel II); 6.4.1 History; 6.4.2 Positive effects; 6.4.3 Negative effects; 6.5 FPÖ/BZÖ effects on sub-national democracy: The case of Carinthia; Conclusions; 7 Populism and democracy in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez; Introduction; 7.1 The crisis of Venezuelan democracy and the rise of Chavismo; 7.2. Populist ideology and discourse under Chávez; 7.3 Democracy, inclusion, and popular participation under Chávez
Content:
7.4 The Chávez regime and democratic contestation
Content:
The first cross-regional study to show that populism can have both positive and negative effects on democracy
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107023857
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Populism in Europe and the Americas : Threat or Corrective for Democracy?
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Populism in Europe and the Americas Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 ISBN 9781107699861
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107023857
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1107023858
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Populismus
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URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=907174
Author information:
Mudde, Cas 1967-
