Populist Challenge to Democracy - Reading List
Session 1 - Introduction
No readings!
Session 2 - Earlier Approaches to Populism
Ionescu, Ghita and Ernest Gellner (Eds.). 1969. Populism: Its Meanings and National Characteristics. London: Wiedenfeld and Nicholson.
- Chapter 6: Donald MacRae. “Populism as an Ideology”. Pp. 153-165.
- Chapter 7: Peter Wiles. “A Syndrome, Not a Doctrine”. Pp. 166-179.
- (optional) Chapter 9: Kenneth Minogue. "Populism as a Political Movement". Pp. 197-210.
- (optional) Chapter 10: Peter Worsley. "Concept of Populism". Pp. 212-250.
Session 3 - New Populism
Taggart, Paul. “Populism and Representative Politics in Contemporary Europe”, Journal of Political Ideologies. 9(3). October 2004. Pp. 269-288.
Decker, Frank. “The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy”, International Politics and Society. 3/2003. Pp. 47-59. Available at: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/ipg/ipg-2003-3/artdecker.pdf
(optional) Urbinati, Nadia. "Democracy and Populism", Constellations. 5(1). 1998. Pp. 110-124.
Session 4 - Populism Discharged (1)
Panizza, Francisco (Ed). 2005. Populism and the Mirror of Democracy. London: Verso.
Introduction: Francisco Panizza. Pp. 1-31
Chapter 1: Laclau, Ernesto. “Populism: What’s in a Name?” Pp. 32-49.
Session 5 - Populism Discharged (2)
Canovan, Margaret. 1999. "Trust the People! Populism and the Two Faces of Democracy." Political Studies. 47(1). Pp. 2-16.
Canovan, Margaret. 2002. “Taking Politics to the People: Populism as the Ideology of Democracy” in Democracies and the Populist Challenge. (Eds.) Yves Mény and Yves Surel. Palgrave: Basingstoke. Pp. 25-44.
Session 6 - Populism Discharged (3)
Papadopoulos, Yannis. 2002. “Populism, the Democratic Question, and Contemporary Governance” in Democracies and the Populist Challenge. (Eds.) Yves Mény and Yves Surel. Palgrave: Basingstoke. Pp. 45-61.
Mudde, Cas. 2004. “Populist Zeitgeist.” Government and Opposition. 39(4). Pp. 541-563.
Session 7 - Latin American and Left Populism
Roberts, Kenneth M. 2007. “Latin America’s Populist Revival”, SAIS Review. 27(1). Pp. 3-15.
Cammack, Paul. 2000. “The Resurgence of Populism in Latin America”. Bulletin of Latin American Research. 19(2). Pp. 149-61.
(optional) March, Luke. 2007. “From Vanguard of the Proletariat to Vox Populi: Left-Populism as a ‘Shadow’ of Contemporary Socialism”, SAIS Review. (27)1. Pp. 63-77.
(optional) Decker, F. and Florian Hartleb. 2007. "Populism on Difficult Terrain: The Right- and Left-Wing Challenger Parties in the Federal Republic of Germany." German Politics. 16(4). Pp. 434-54.
(optional) Hough, D. and Michael Koss. 2009. "Populism Personified or Reinvigorated? The German Left Party in 2009 and Beyond." German Politics and Society. 27(2). Pp. 76-91.
Session 8 - Radical Right Populism in Europe
Mouffe, Chantal. 2005. “The ‘End of Politics’ and the Challenge of Right-wing Populism” in Francisco Panizza (Ed). Populism and the Mirror of Democracy. London: Verso. Pp.50-72.
Betz, Hans-Georg and Carol Johnson. 2004. “Against the Current—stemming the tide: the nostalgic ideology of the contemporary radical populist right”. Journal of Political Ideologies. 9(3). Pp. 311-327.
Session 9 - Finnish vs. Turkish Populisms
Arter, David. 2010. “The Breakthrough of Another West European Populist Radical Right Party? The Case of True Finns”, Government and Opposition. (45)4. Pp. 484-504.
Hale, William. 2005. “Christian Democracy and the AKP: Parallels and Contrasts”. Turkish Studies. 6(2). Pp. 293-310.
(Optional) Fieschi, C. and Paul Heywood. 2004. "Trust, cynicism and populist anti-politics." Journal of Political Ideologies. Vol (9)3. Pp. 289-303.
(optional) Keyman, Fuat. 2010. “Modernization, Globalization and Democratization in Turkey: The AKP Experience and its Limits”, Constellations. Pp. 312-27.
Session 10 - Media & Populism, Concluding Remarks
Mazzoleni, G. 2008. "Populism and the Media" in 21st Century Populism. Albertazzi and McDonnell (eds.). Pp. 49-64.