Populism and the Mirror of Democracy

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Francisco Panizza
Verso, 2005 - Political Science - 358 pages
Topics covered by the contributors to this volume include populism and the new right in English Canada, religion and populism in contemporary Greece, populism as an internal periphery of democratic politics, and the discursive continuities of the Menemist rupture.
 

Contents

Populism and the Mirror of Democracy
1
Whats in a Name? 32
32
The End of Politics and the Challenge of Rightwing Populism 50
50
Populism as an Internal Periphery of Democratic Politics 72 12
72
A Failed Populist Project 99 66
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Populism and the New Right in English Canada
172
Populism or Popular Democracy? The UDF Workerism
202
Religion and Populism in Contemporary Greece
224
The Discursive Continuities of the Menemist Rupture
250
Notes
275
Bibliography
317
List of contributors
339
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Francisco Panizza is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the London Schoolof Economics and Political Science. He has written extensively onpopulism and democracy in contemporary Latin America and is currentlyworking on a book on politics and modernity in the region.