Democracy's resilience to populism's threat countering global alarmism
The recent global wave of populist governments, which culminated in Donald Trump's victory in 2016, has convinced many observers that populism is a grave threat to democracy. In his new book, Kurt Weyland critiques recent scholarship for focusing too closely on cases where populist leaders have...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2024
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The populist threat to democracy
- How institutional constraints and conjunctural opportunities condition populism's threat to democracy
- Neoliberal and rightwing populism in Latin America
- "Bolivarian" and leftwing populism in Latin America
- Rightwing and traditionalist populism in Europe
- Rightwing populism in the US: Donald Trump in comparative perspective
- Conclusion: Theoretical and comparative implications