Populism

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Benjamin Moffitt. Populism

Contents

Guide

Pages

Series title. Key Concepts in Political Theory

Populism

Copyright page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

1 Why Populism Matters

2 What Is Populism?

The Ideational Approach

The Strategic Approach

The Discursive–Performative Approach

Comparing the Three Approaches to Populism

Notes

3 Populism, Nationalism and Nativism

The Similarities and Differences between Populism and Nationalism

How Do the Populist Right and Left Use Nationalism Differently?

The Populist Right and Nationalism

The Populist Left and Nationalism

What Does a Non-National Populism Look Like?

Municipal and Provincial Populism

Regionalist Populism

International Populism

Transnational Populism

Conclusion

Notes

4 Populism and Socialism

What Socialism Shares with Populism

Left-Wing Populism in Practice

Beyond Socialism? Class versus ‘the People’ in Left Populism

Conclusion

Notes

5 Populism and Liberalism

Populism versus Liberalism?

The Populist Right and the Weaponising of Liberalism

The Populist Left, Liberalism and Pluralism

Conclusion

Notes

6 Populism and Democracy

Liberal Democracy and Populism

Radical Democracy and Populism

Populism’s Potentiality

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

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Benjamin Moffitt

I also wish to thank the two anonymous reviewers whose comments on the initial proposal for this book made it much sharper and ensured that I did not just slip into the all-too-common tendency to examine Eurocentric conceptions and examples of populism; and even more so to the four anonymous reviewers who reviewed the draft manuscript, providing perhaps the most constructive, fair and useful comments I have received in all my time of writing about populism. At Polity Press, many thanks to George Owers for commissioning the book and for his sharp and astute comments on the text, and to Julia Davies for her editorial assistance. Thanks also to Manuela Tecusan, whose meticulous and keen-eyed copy-editing improved the text immensely. The book is much better as a result of all these people’s generosity and hard work.

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But never fear: this book is not just about what different scholars have argued about when it comes to populism. It assumes that you are reading it because you are probably interested in real-world political developments that have been subsumed under the heading of ‘populism’ in recent years, and hence it draws on evocative examples of populism across the globe, primarily from the last two decades, to illustrate, flesh out, challenge and make sense of the conceptual arguments at play. It should be noted that the book’s primarily contemporary focus means that it does not attempt to read populism back into history – say, by looking at the role of the demos in ancient Athens – but rather chooses to concentrate its attention on what has actually been called (or called itself) populist, given that this is presumably what the reader is most interested in at this particular, ‘populist’ moment.

In order to work towards these outlined goals, the book is structured to introduce you to the core definitional debates at play in the literature on populism, before moving on to central normative and ideological debates about populism’s relationship to other core concepts in political theory. It proceeds as follows.

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