TY  - CHAP
A1  - Mackert, Jürgen
ED  - Fitzi, Gregor
ED  - Mackert, Jürgen
ED  - Turner, Bryan S.
T1  - Introduction
BT  - is there such a thing as populism?
T2  - Populism and the crisis of democracy Volume 1 Concepts and Theory
N2  - The rise of populism has promoted a broad, vivid and flourishing debate in the social sciences that seems to have arisen even in the face of the ties between right-wing populism and the extreme right. The social sciences are struggling with how properly to conceptualise and theorise populism as a social and political phenomenon. Incongruity or asynchrony of events in factual history and their being conceptualised is obviously critical with regard to the problems that arise with defining and conceptualising populism. The plurality of usages, applications and meanings of populism thus only shows how, in a vivid debate, scholars can observe a contest for coming to terms with a concept that remains in flux and that needs to be continually revised given rapidly changing social conditions. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-1-138-09136-8
SN  - 978-1-315-10807-0
SP  - 1
EP  - 13
PB  - Routledge
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Mackert, Jürgen
T1  - We the people
BT  - liberal and organic populism, and the politics of social closure
T2  - Populism and the crisis of democracy Volume 1 Concepts and Theory
N2  - The chapter argues that populism as a modern phenomenon is closely linked with the great democratic revolutions that, for the first time in history, addressed ‘the people’ as the sovereign, thereby constituting the modern citizen. Yet, ‘the people’ can and do draw boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’. In an analytical perspective the article suggests a distinction between three forms of populism, ‘organic populism’, ‘liberal economic populism’, and ‘liberal cultural populism’, that operate differently. Applying closure theory to these different forms allows understanding of the different processes of populist politics that today promote exclusion by applying differentiated strategies of social closure.
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-1-138-09136-8
SN  - 978-1-315-10807-0
SP  - 91
EP  - 108
PB  - Routledge
CY  - London
ER  -