Faces of Contemporary Populism in Western Europe and the US

Marie Gayte is an Associate Professor of US Studies at the University of Toulon, France. In 2018 she co-edited Catholic and US Politics after the 2016 Election: Understanding the Swing Vote, also with Palgrave Macmillan.Karine Tournier-Sol is an Associate Professor of British politics at the University of Toulon, France. With Chris Gifford, she co-edited The UK Challenge to Europeanization: The Persistence of British Euroscepticism (Palgrave, 2015). Her most recent book is Prendre le large : le UKIP et le choix du Brexit (2017).

​“This book will surely act as a pathway for further research in the domain of populism and is certainly a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand trends in modern politics where far-right populism has increasingly led to the degeneration of welfare systems and also the deregulation of economies.” (Ambreen Yousuf, Insight Turkey, Vol. 24 (4), 2022)

• Introduction.- 1.From UKIP to Brexit: The Right-Wing Populist Surge in the UK.- 2.The Brexit Referendum: How Eurosceptic Populism Transformed UK Politics.- 3.The Populist Slur: Delegitimising Popular Grievances.- 4.Is Podemos a Populist Party?  An Analysis of its Discourse and Political Strategy.- 5.AfD and FPÖ: Rejection of Immigration: The Basis of a Common National-Populist Identity.- 6.Populism and Religion in the Lega’s Discourse and Policies.- 7.Populist(s) Rhetoric(s): a Linguistic Analysis of a “Mentality” of Italian politics in Republican Italy.- 8.Economic Populist Attitudes in Western Europe and the United States.- 9.Conservative Populism and the American Welfare State since the 1960s.- 10.The Tea Party Movement in Pennsylvania: a New Brand of Populism?.- 11.Religion, a Significant Factor in Donald Trump's Populism?.- 12.The Populist Challenge to Foreign Policy: A Transatlantic Perspective.- Conclusion.