Democracies and the Populist Challenge

by Y. Surel and Yves Surel

Book Overview

Populism has become a favourite catchword for mass media and politicians faced with the challenge of protest parties or movements. It has often been equated with radical right leaders or parties. This volume offers a different perspective and underlines that populism is an ambiguous but constitutive component of democratic systems torn between their ideology (government of the people, by the people, for the people) and their actual functioning, characterised...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333970047
• ISBN13: 9780333970041
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"