The Populist Manifesto

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The Populist Manifesto
The Populist Manifesto
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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
Populism
The emerging consensus around ‘what is populism?’
Populism, crisis and transition
Left-wing and right-wing
Populism’s others: Non- and anti-
Bibliographical notes
Chapter 2
Populism and Myth
The political effectiveness of storytelling
The function of myths in political discourse
The dual hero: Leader and people
Punching upward/punching downward
Conclusion
Bibliographical notes
Notes
Chapter 3
Populism and the Politics of Control
Control and sovereignty
Globalisation and loss of control
Control and psychology
Uses of control
Bibliographical notes
Chapter 4
Ten Theses on Populism – and Democracy
1. Populism is PERFORMATIVE AND not easily defined
2. POPULISM, JUST LIKE NATIONALISM, HAS a Janus-face
3. Populism relates to DEMOCRACY, not demography
4. Populism’s tendentially empty core relates to the ethos of democracy
5. Populism can be reduced into a formula
6. Populism occurs in moments
7. Populism is not the goal but the means of politics
8. Populist dynamics reveal variation
9. Competing populisms sustain themselves as a basis of polarisation
10. Populism is spatial: Space and people co-constitute one another
Bibliographical notes
Chapter 5
Why Populists Aren’t Mad
Emotions as threats to democracy
Is populism a democratic anomaly?
Salvaging emotions (and maybe democracy?)
Conclusion
Bibliographical notes
Chapter 6
Populism, Democracy and the Transnational People
Democracy and populism
Transnationalism, democracy and populism
Bibliographical notes
Chapter 7
Left Populism as a Political Project
Theoretical misconceptions around populism
Left- versus right-wing populism
Biographical notes
Notes
Chapter 8
A Manifesto and Populism?
Left and right (populism)
Pluralism and the people
Antagonism
Supply and DEMAND
Bibliographical notes
Index