Research Handbook on Populism

Edited by Yannis Stavrakakis, Professor of Political Discourse Analysis, School of Political Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Giorgos Katsambekis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

‘Populism can no longer be avoided if contemporary democracy is to be understood. This Research Handbook on Populism is fundamental to the social and political disciplines in their various subfields and methodologies, qualitative and quantitative. It indicates with rigorous critical precision the thematic nodes opened up by the study of movements and processes associated with populism, which can give us a better understanding of democracy and representation, the people and sovereignty.’

• Contents:Introduction: populism’s enduring relevance and the challenges ahead 1Yannis Stavrakakis and Giorgos KatsambekisPART I CONCEPTS1 Populism, democracy and ‘the people’ 11Geneviève Nootens2 The populism–nationalism nexus 23Michaelangelo Anastasiou and Jacopo Custodi3 Anti-populism, meritocracy and (technocratic) elitism 35Savvas VoutyrasPART II DIACHRONIES4 Populist sensibilities before ‘populism’: populism’s historic predecessors 49Federico Tarragoni5 The Russian populism of the Narodniki: contexts, affinities and legacies 61Yiannis Mylonas and Simona Guerra6 Populism and anti-populism in the United States 72Charles Postel7 Peronism and its legacy 84Paula Biglieri8 Patterns in Italian populism: from the Common Man’s Front to the FiveStar Movement 95Marcello Gisondi9 From Poujade to Jean-Marie Le Pen to Marine Le Pen: a populistlineage in France? 106Annie CollovaldPART III THEORIES AND KEY THINKERS10 Richard Hofstadter, modernization theory and the birth of a globalpopulism debate 118Anton Jäger11 Margaret Canovan, populist gadfly 131Paris Aslanidis12 Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and the discursive approach 142Lasse Thomassen13 Populism as a political strategy 154Kurt Weyland14 The ideational approach to populism 166Lisa Zanotti15 The socio-cultural approach: toward a cultural class analysis of populistappeals 178Linus Westheuser and Pierre OstiguyPART IV DISCIPLINARY ANGLES16 Political economy 193Simon Tunderman17 International relations and foreign policy 204Angelos Chryssogelos18 Ethnography 216Marcos Emilio Pérez19 Populist constitutionalism 226Akritas Kaidatzis20 History: the moral economy perspective 239Norbert Götz and Emilia Palonen21 Discourse studies 251Ruth WodakPART V RESEARCH AGENDAS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES22 Populism and political parties 267Giovanni Barbieri23 Populism and social movements 278Donatella della Porta and Martín Portos24 Populist leadership and charisma 291William Mazzarella25 Populist political communication 303Niko Hatakka26 Populism and emotions 314Emmy Eklundh27 Psychoanalytic political theorization 325Thomás Zicman de Barros28 Populism through surveys: personality, attitudes and behaviour 336Patricia Rehus, Maria Tsigkou, Steven M. Van Hauwaert andIoannis AndreadisPART VI COMPARISONS AND TYPOLOGIES29 Left and right 348María Esperanza Casullo30 In opposition and in government 360Giorgos Venizelos and Grigoris Markou31 Populist democracy or populist dictatorship? 373Paul Lucardie32 National and transnational 385Panos PanayotuPART VII HOTSPOTS33 Latin America 398Enrico Padoan34 Europe: North and South 410Petar Bankov and Myrto Tsakatika35 Central and Eastern Europe 422Seongcheol Kim36 Populism in Southeast Asia 433Dakila Kim P. Yee and Nicole Curato37 Populism in Africa 444Sishuwa SishuwaPART VIII RESEARCH CHALLENGES38 Gender, feminism and populism 457Luciana Cadahia39 Populism and religion 469Konstantinos Papastathis40 Populism and the commons 481Alexandros Kioupkiolis41 Colonialism and populism 494Dani Filc42 Digital populism 506Paolo Gerbaudo43 Populism, music and the arts 516Anna Schwenck and Mario Dunkel44 The populist hype 527Jana Goyvaerts, Katy Brown, Aurelien Mondon, Jason Glynos andBenjamin De Cleen45 Diffusion and global circulation of populist discourse 540Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser and Cristóbal Sandoval46 Experts and populism in the context of COVID-19 551Liv SunnercrantzIndex 563