Catherine Fieschi is founder and executive director of Counterpoint, a research consultancy that focuses on the social and cultural drivers of political dynamics. Her publications include Fascism, Populism and the French Fifth Republic and numerous articles and pamphlets.

A succinct, comprehensively researched and intelligible account of the definitional contours, history, multiple origins, and multifaceted nature of ‘populism’. Fieschi disentangles populism from fascism and the ‘extreme right’ and identifies the core memes of ‘populocratic’ sentiment and ressentiment. In doing so she highlights the seductiveness of its myth of 'the people’, and the growing dangers it poses to democratic pluralism. These dangers can only grow in a digital age in which individuals can narcissistically confuse their voice with vox populi.

• Introduction1. What is it about populism?2. The ideas that matter, or populism as Jiu Jitsu politics3. The prototype: France4. Populism goes global: the Netherlands5. Populism's poster child? Italy6. The UK and the absolute populist fantasy: taking back control7. Populism, meet the new political subjectConclusion: Jiu Jitsu politics

Catherine Fieschi is founder and executive director of Counterpoint, a research consultancy that focuses on the social and cultural drivers of political dynamics. Her publications include Fascism, Populism and the French Fifth Republic and numerous articles and pamphlets.

A succinct, comprehensively researched and intelligible account of the definitional contours, history, multiple origins, and multifaceted nature of ‘populism’. Fieschi disentangles populism from fascism and the ‘extreme right’ and identifies the core memes of ‘populocratic’ sentiment and ressentiment. In doing so she highlights the seductiveness of its myth of 'the people’, and the growing dangers it poses to democratic pluralism. These dangers can only grow in a digital age in which individuals can narcissistically confuse their voice with vox populi.

• Introduction1. What is it about populism?2. The ideas that matter, or populism as Jiu Jitsu politics3. The prototype: France4. Populism goes global: the Netherlands5. Populism's poster child? Italy6. The UK and the absolute populist fantasy: taking back control7. Populism, meet the new political subjectConclusion: Jiu Jitsu politics

Catherine Fieschi is founder and executive director of Counterpoint, a research consultancy that focuses on the social and cultural drivers of political dynamics. Her publications include Fascism, Populism and the French Fifth Republic and numerous articles and pamphlets.

A succinct, comprehensively researched and intelligible account of the definitional contours, history, multiple origins, and multifaceted nature of ‘populism’. Fieschi disentangles populism from fascism and the ‘extreme right’ and identifies the core memes of ‘populocratic’ sentiment and ressentiment. In doing so she highlights the seductiveness of its myth of 'the people’, and the growing dangers it poses to democratic pluralism. These dangers can only grow in a digital age in which individuals can narcissistically confuse their voice with vox populi.

• Introduction1. What is it about populism?2. The ideas that matter, or populism as Jiu Jitsu politics3. The prototype: France4. Populism goes global: the Netherlands5. Populism's poster child? Italy6. The UK and the absolute populist fantasy: taking back control7. Populism, meet the new political subjectConclusion: Jiu Jitsu politics