Populist Tradition

Déborah Cohen is Senior Lecturer of Early-Modern French History at Rouen University, France. She is a specialist in the popular history of France, covering the modern period and the Revolution. She works on the forms of political participation by the dominated classes and has just completed a project on civic denunciation during the French Revolution, as a form of surveillance of possible abuses and excesses by governments.Federico Tarragoni is Professor of Political Sociology at Caen University, France and Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He is a leading specialist in populism, on which he has introduced an innovative socio-historical approach. He also works on contemporary democratic activism in square-occupying movements (Indignados, Occupy Wall Street, Nuit debout, Aganaktisménoi). He received the Schneider Aguirre Basualdo Prize in Social Sciences from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris and was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University Paris Cité.

• Introduction. Part I. Populism: A Concept to be Redefined 1. The Place of the People: Populism Beyond "Democratic Elitism” 2. Myth, Screen and Misunderstanding: Populism or the Blind Spots of an Unfounded Notion 3. Toward a Reappraisal of Russian Populism (1819-1881) 4. The Women’s People. On Historical Populism and Gender Part II. Populism as a Movement and Populism as a Regime 5. Narodnichestvo: The Life of an Elusive Term 6. American Populism and the Practice of Democracy 7. The Problem of Populism in Latin America. Political Representation and Democratic Communities 8. Peronism as Prototypical Populism : Fleshing out the People Part III. A European Tradition: Inventing the People’s Sovereignty in Representative Regimes 9. Making the Voice of the People Heard: the Right to Instruct Representatives in Pre-Wilkes Great-Britain 10. Representing the Nation. The Imperative Mandate and Deliberation at the Geginning of the French Revolution 11. French Revolution Populists and Populisms : How the Sovereignty of the People is Shaped for Robespierre and the Enragés 12. Gracchus Babeuf (1760-1797), A Project for Popular Democracy 13. The Moral Economy of the People by François-Joseph L’Ange 14. Populism as Radical Republicanism: a Comparative Approach of Boulangism and Blasquism at the End of the 19th Century (France, Spain) 15. Antonio Gramsci and the “Going to the People” 16. Popular Revolution and Populism in Twentieth Century Ireland 17. The People’s Gathering: the 2010’s Movements of the Squares and the Popular Assemblies as Populist Ritual 18. When the Wave Recedes: Two Routes out of Southern Europe’s Populist Moment 19. Representing the People : Democratic Responses to Populism