Me the People - How Populism Transforms Democracy

Populism suddenly is everywhere, and everywhere misunderstood. Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as government based on an unmediated relationship between the leader and those defined as the ¿good¿ or ¿right¿ people. Mingling history, theory, and current affairs, Urbinati illuminates populism¿s tense relation to democracy.

About the author

Nadia Urbinati is the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. She is the author of several books, including Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth, and the People (Harvard); The Tyranny of the Moderns; Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy; and Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government, which won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book in democratic theory.

Summary

Populism suddenly is everywhere, and everywhere misunderstood. Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as government based on an unmediated relationship between the leader and those defined as the “good” or “right” people. Mingling history, theory, and current affairs, Urbinati illuminates populism’s tense relation to democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Nadia Urbinati, Urbinati Nadia
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780674240889
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24088-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Demokratie, Politikwissenschaft, Totalitarismus, Politisches System: Totalitarismus und Diktatur, Politisches System: Demokratie, Soziale und politische Philosophie, Populism, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Politik / Politikwissenschaft, Politologie, Philosophie / Gesellschaft, Politik, Staat, Diktatur - Diktator, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Political science and theory, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship